October 11, 2009
Britain's Central Planning Death Panels
October 11, 2009
Free Market M.D.
October 11, 2009
Economies of Scale in Compliance
October 11, 2009
Balan's Challenge
October 10, 2009
The Pleasure of Telling Others What to Do
October 10, 2009
Gonick the Great - and How He Could Have Been Greater
October 9, 2009
More Scott Sumner
October 9, 2009
Not From The Onion
October 9, 2009
Thoughts on a Second Stimulus
Another simile would be "It is like telling someone with adult-onset diabetes to go seek counsel and treatment from Hersheys."
It remains a source of astonishment to me that people believe that governments are somehow more virtuous than other organizations, despite the horrific track record to the contrary.
I like to think of jb's point in the form of a Brad DeLong headline:
WHY CAN'T 1/7 OF OUR ENTIRE ECONOMY BE UNDER THE DIRECT CONTROL OF THESE IDIOTS?
I gather from Arnold's rebuttal that he was able to figure out what Holt meant by "cross-subsidies" in catastrophic insurance. That's more than I can say for myself! Is KlingCare going to require community rating in this market or something?