{"id":2705,"date":"2009-09-14T19:07:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T03:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2009-09-14T19:08:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T03:08:24","slug":"choices-in-the-non-best-of-all-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/choices-in-the-non-best-of-all-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Choices in the non-best of all worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was struck that Arnold Kling recently admitted<\/a>:<\/p>\n

My preference would be market-oriented health reform and the creation of real health insurance, which is bought by individuals and covers only insurable events (unexpected high expenses). But if it comes down to a choice, I’d rather have socialized health insurance with a robust private-sector job market than hang on to a private health insurance industry with a shriveled private-sector job market.<\/p>\n

Of course, we could easily have health reform that keeps employer-provided health insurance and even makes matters worse. Odds are, that’s where we are headed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kling’s rank-order seems to be: Libertarian solution to healthcare > Socialist\/welfare-state solution to healthcare > Current system and its descendants.<\/p>\n

Is this a common sentiment among libertarians? That they would prefer the genuine socialism in healthcare to the current system? And how about liberals, would they prefer a genuinely libertarian solution to the current system? As I have noted before it seems that both the Left and the Right agree that the current system is not very good. As I note below even Republicans agree<\/a> that there is a strong moral aspect in healthcare. If you ban discrimination against those with preexisting conditions then the incentive is to sign up for a low premium high deductible plan, and simply “upgrade” when you’d prefer a higher premium but lower deductible plan. Great market for consumers, if you can call it that….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was struck that Arnold Kling recently admitted: My preference would be market-oriented health reform and the creation of real health insurance, which is bought by individuals and covers only insurable events (unexpected high expenses). But if it comes down … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[317],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}