3G Health Care

Peter Suderman does an excellent job of clarifying Ezra Klein’s misconceptions about health care. This is the house they’ve built: an insurance market where plans are written for the healthy and all legal efforts are made to exclude the sick. That’s meant premiums are somewhat lower than they’d otherwise be, but only because the people [...]

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Harsanyi and the CBO

David Harsanyi hammers on CBO ‘estimate’ of the newest version of the Baucus health-care bill. The CBO’s new estimate, which magically meets every one of President Barack Obama’s preconditions, is based on “conceptual” language provided by Baucus rather than on any of those maddeningly specific Arabic numerals. That’s because the estimate isn’t rooted in an [...]

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