While the topic of the day is health care reform (my proposal, at length, found here), it’s instructive to reflect on the financial crisis, the law of unintended consequences, and examine where even innocuous sounding policy can lead to grievous damage. A number of factors led to the meltdown last fall, but one that few [...]
Read more...With today’s lengthy whitepaper post on healthcare reform, I’m back in circulation. Last fall as I started to activate Up The Economy, I had the opportunity to spend some time at the Department of the Treasury as the TARP auction program was being designed (my background is in auction design and technology.) As I began [...]
Read more...Rational Health Reform for Conservatives
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Health reform is a huge topic. The complexity and sheer scale of the problem nearly ensures that mainstream media cannot contribute to the debate, because the details and reality don’t fit in neat sound bites. Further, many of the issues are simply technical beyond [...]