Health Care Reform as Economic Stimulus
January 3rd, 2009There is some dicsussion that health care reform should take a back seat in an economic stimulus package.
I suggest that health care reform can go a long way to jump start the economy by itself.
I make that argument for three reasons. First the current system of health care financing distorts the competitiveness of the American economy. Second, the current system of health care financing distorts the job market. Third, which is really an extension of the second, the current system of employment based health care financing inhibits the very creative forces that can energize the economy. Read the rest of this entry »
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