{"id":181558,"date":"2016-05-20T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/20\/why-not-both\/"},"modified":"2016-05-20T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T16:26:00","slug":"why-not-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/20\/why-not-both\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not Both?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Angry Bear wonders if, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/angrybearblog.com\/2016\/05\/are-economists-idiots-or-just-delusional.html\">Economists Idiots or Just Delusional<\/a>?&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">If reducing the value of the policies If held by those who are continuously employed, either by taxing them or forcing those people to move to a less comprehensive plan than their risk-aversion preferences, is going to \u201creduce costly distortions in U.S. health care,\u201d the only possible conclusion is that total health care spending is going to get costlier on average.<\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/p>\n<p>Yes, you might argue this will reduce \u201cdistortion.\u201d But you would have to be an idiot\u2014or, apparently, Alan Auerbach (Strongly) or Austan Goolsbee\u2014to believe that is a good thing.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Note that&nbsp; Goolsbee has been a senior economic advisor to Obama, and his&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/obama-to-maine-drop-dead.html\">predilection for so-called market efficiencies at the expense of the poor and powerless has been common knowledge for quite some time<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It does explain many of the policy shortcomings of the Obama animation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Posted via mobile.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angry Bear wonders if, &#8220;Economists Idiots or Just Delusional?&#8221; If reducing the value of the policies If held by those who are continuously employed, either by taxing them or forcing those people to move to a less comprehensive plan than their risk-aversion preferences, is going to \u201creduce costly distortions in U.S. health care,\u201d the only &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1046,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-healthcare","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}