The ‘individual mandate’ in Obamacare obliges everyone to take up an health insurance plan. That seems like a restriction on personal freedom, but there are good economic reasons for that..
Market for healthcare
February 7th, 2011 · Comments Off on Market for healthcare
Tags: The World according to Economics
What is actually against it?
March 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments
Isn’t basic insurance for everyone a basic sign of civilization?
Tags: Public Policy · Reform Capitalism
Remarkable realist stuff from the Wall Street Journal
March 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment
Editorial pages content are usually to the right of Attila the Hun. Not this time…
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Market fundamentalism
September 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off on Market fundamentalism
We’ve argued many times on these pages it was the biggest root cause of the financial crisis, the belief that the market is always right, government always the problem, never the solution. It is based on a very simple understanding of markets that have little to do with how real-world markets function. Now that same […]
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