Responses to Paul Krugman on economics of health insurance

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

In a recent post on health care, Paul Krugman writes (in his typically obnoxious smug style): Both George Will and Greg Mankiw basically argue that we don't need a government role because we can trust the market to work -- hey, we do it for groceries, right? Um, economists have known for ...

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Politicians: save us from human nature!

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Addition to Tuesday's post on medical care in the Czech Republic: An intriguing part of Sunday's New York Times article about medical care in the Czech Republic was a quote by Harvard's Marc J. Roberts, included in the excerpt below: But many Czechs see it as a matter of principle that health ...

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