tyler cowen
who is uh... a right wing libertarian like
economist
from george mason university
uh... he writes a blog called a marginal revolution and i saw this
this crap
from not graft with this uh... that paragraph uh...
the balloon jews
she's a great blog
read uh...
nearly daily
and
telling count is talking about
the principles
that libertarian
conservatives should have when it comes it to regarding uh... health care
he lays out the three or four here
the one that is i think most telling
remember
the affordable care act
at least as it was set out was to provide universal health care
which means that health care for all americans doesn't mean single-payer
doesn't mean a
administered by uh... doesn't mean medicare for all just means that
everyone is covered
we are the only
industrialized nation in the world
but does it have some form of universal health care
and if we're looking at will
will not achieve
universality
it will
and somewhat close can expand a health care coverage
for thirteen million people off the bat
they're gonna have health care
and
the mandate which you know we spoke about this in the past but it's getting
a lot more tension
which is really uh... in essence
no genuine mandate in it of itself there's no enforcement mechanism
we talked about that yesterday ah... in the replay of that interview with amanda
frost we did several months ago
but there really is no uh... enforcement mechanism
there's a
penalty that's imposed but there's no real way to collect on that penalty
but do that as a many
this is very telling and we heard ron paul when he got out there he was
talking about are you don't have held in georgia have elder
rwanda read this
paragraph from tyler count cuz its
it's nice to see them being honest about it
but the real question is does do the american people businesses is this how
the american people
perceive
what america is about
we talk about american exceptional ism
this is we're talking about
his number two principal
but the right should embrace on health care
is quote a rejection of health care
egalitarianism
namely a recognition that the wealthy will purchase more and better health
care than the poor
trying to equalize healthcare consumption
hurts the poor since most feasible policies
to to do this takeaway cash from the poor
either directly or through the operation of tax incidence
this is a i think a fairly species are good but but
he's also a clean like you lose a couple of dollars in cash theoretically cuz he
comes out of the economy because of taxes theoretically uh... but you get
healthcare but that's still it hurts the poor
but then he says
we need to accept the principal
but sometimes poor people will be just
dodi
we need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people died just
because they are poor
some of you don't like the sound of that
but we already let the wealthy enjoy all sorts of other goods
most importantly status
which lengths of their lives which the poor enjoy to a much lesser degree
we shouldn't screw up our healthcare institutions by being determined to
fight
in egalitarian principles for one very select set of factors which determine
healthcare outcomes
what are you saying here
is that
it is better
to have a health care system
that will attract saudi princes
on occasion
then why not
that in improves the health
and extends the lives
as many people as possible
which people already live longer because they live better lives let's not focus
on the idea of providing the poor health care
at the expense of anything else
and it's not just that there may be some other things that we like better
so marginally speaking you know we drive our cars and people die a lot of people
die in their cars we're not gonna give up our cars
now we have to embrace
except
the principal
that sometimes poor people will die
just because they are poor the
that's the way to better america
unbelievable
i mean obviously something like that is always going to
but doesn't mean you don't do anything about it now it's not just a question of
you don't do anything about it
you probably actively embrace that that that that it happens
it's not we can't do anything about it
it's that specifically this is the way it should be
affan believable but that's what they believe and
you gotta get incredibly honest about it