{"id":3442,"date":"2010-01-27T15:39:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T20:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2010-01-28T17:44:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:44:29","slug":"should-libertariansconservatives-support-socialized-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3442\/should-libertariansconservatives-support-socialized-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Libertarians \/ Conservatives Support Socialized Health Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The obvious answer is no, but economist Arnold Kling would like to run an experiment between a completely decentralized market system and a government-run single payer system.\u00a0 To the victor go the spoils.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2010\/01\/why_the_us_is_u.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kling writes<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Instead of having a big national contest over what health care system, why not try single-payer in one part of the country and radical deregulation in another? Switzerland, which is about the size of Maryland, has different health care systems in each of its 20-odd cantons, which are about the size of Maryland counties. Surely it must be possible to try different health care approaches in Texas and Massachusetts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since states are supposed to be the \u201claboratories of democracy,\u201d this proposal might make sense.\u00a0 Of course, Massachusetts and Mitt Romney have already tried aspects of ObamaCare (state-run exchanges and individual mandates) and the results should be a sobering reminder to politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/Content\/Publications\/Data-Briefs\/2009\/Aug\/Paying-the-Price-How-Health-Insurance-Premiums-Are-Eating-Up-Middle-Class-Incomes.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">highest health care premiums<\/span><\/a> in the nation and state expenditures are far above projected levels.\u00a0 Massachusetts\u2019 failed experiment finally merited some political capital for supporters of a free market system when Bay State voters essentially derailed ObamaCare with their vote for Scott Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Voters appear to be taking notice.\u00a0 Politicians?\u00a0 We\u2019ll find out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2010\/01\/27\/state-union-watch-discuss-engage\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tonight<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/27\/the-case-for-single-payer\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Peter Suderman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The obvious answer is no, but economist Arnold Kling would like to run an experiment between a completely decentralized market system and a government-run single payer system.\u00a0 To the victor go the spoils. Kling writes: Instead of having a big national contest over what health care system, why not try single-payer in one part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,159,160,35,725],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-massachusetts","tag-mitt-romney","tag-obamacare","tag-scott-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}