{"id":1545,"date":"2009-07-03T05:47:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T13:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2009-07-03T05:48:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T13:48:55","slug":"an-economist-summarizes-the-health-care-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/an-economist-summarizes-the-health-care-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"An economist summarizes the health care debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And does a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124640626749276595.html\">great job of it<\/a>.\u00a0 He leads with a great punch:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; <em>&#8220;The American people overwhelmingly favor reform.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you ask whether people would be happier if somebody else paid their medical bills, they generally say yes. But surveys on consumers&#8217; satisfaction with their quality of care show overwhelming support for the continuation of the present arrangement. The best proof of this is the belated recognition by the proponents of health-care reform that they need to promise people that they can keep what they have now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My own summary:\u00a0 I&#8217;m amazed at the number of otherwise intelligent people who favor reform on the theory that we can&#8217;t individually afford the skyrocketing costs of health care, but that we can afford it collectively, and that by increasing the degree to which I&#8217;m paying for your health care and you&#8217;re paying for mine, we&#8217;ll bring those overall costs under control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And does a great job of it.\u00a0 He leads with a great punch: &#8211; &#8220;The American people overwhelmingly favor reform.&#8221; If you ask whether people would be happier if somebody else paid their medical bills, they generally say yes. But surveys on consumers&#8217; satisfaction with their quality of care show overwhelming support for the continuation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-invisible-trade-offs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}