January, 2007

Managed Competition, if You Can Keep It

This discussion has gone in so many directions that it is hard to find a way to wrap it up. Unfortunately, President Bush’s latest proposal is such a pitiful response to a huge problem that I don’t even want to talk about it.
Instead, let me embrace, with Matthew Holt, the basic Enthoven managed-competition model, […]

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The President’s Plan

With the President having proposed a new health care plan in his State of the Union Address, this might be an occasion to comment. The plan is to recognize employer-provided health insurance premiums as taxable income, while creating a standard deduction that everyone with health insurance can use. Because the deduction is limited […]

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Not Politically Realistic

Cohn writes, “But if [Kling]’s going to dismiss single-payer as politically unrealistic, then I have to ask him: Does he think his vision politically realistic?”
No. I wrote here:
I should start by saying that the book does not contain a single major policy recommendation that is politically palatable today… Maybe some years down the […]

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