{"id":4759,"date":"2010-02-01T09:53:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4759"},"modified":"2010-02-01T09:53:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:53:18","slug":"ezra-klein-our-governments-partial-role-is-pricier-than-the-whole-of-government-run-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4759","title":{"rendered":"Ezra Klein: Our government&#8217;s partial role is pricier than the whole of government-run systems."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2010\/01\/america_spends_way_way_way_mor.html\">Ezra Klein<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We don&#8217;t have a government-run system. But our system is so expensive that our government&#8217;s partial role is pricier than the whole of government-run systems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to see conservaties grapple with this issue &#8211; rather than try to deflect it with unsourced claims that our health care system is simply the best in the world.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth pointing out that Republicans, conservatives, or others defending America&#8217;s health care system as the &#8220;best in the world&#8221; generally use facts that suggest our system is best for those with the money to buy the best. So, for example, if a foreign despot needs treatment for cancer, he&#8217;ll come to America. If you have similar financial resources, you too can buy this world-class treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Most other attempts to defend our <em>status quo<\/em> are simply about deflecting claims. For example, someone might claim that poor people do get treated &#8211; with or without insurance &#8211; and that they don&#8217;t get a lesser quality of care. (<a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.repec.org\/p\/fal\/wpaper\/06001.html\">Studies have demonstrated that they do<\/a> &#8211; but that&#8217;s a different topic.)<\/p>\n<p>The point that Ezra Klein makes here is scarcely understood by most Americans &#8211; as they insist that the government stop wasting money, and decry cuts to Medicare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezra Klein: We don&#8217;t have a government-run system. But our system is so expensive that our government&#8217;s partial role is pricier than the whole of government-run systems. I&#8217;d love to see conservaties grapple with this issue &#8211; rather than try to deflect it with unsourced claims that our health care system is simply the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[544,1023,4,458],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-4759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-health-care-domestic-issues","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-ezra-klein"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-1eL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4778,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions\/4778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}