Ron Wyden, Useful Idiot - NYTimes.com
Ron Wyden, Useful Idiot
I was too busy and too overstretched to weigh in on this earlier, but Sen. Ron Wyden did indeed do a bad, bad thing in his joint proposal with Paul Ryan. Ezra Klein explains why; and the devil isn’t in the details.
What Wyden did was to give cover to the fundamental fallacy of right-wing attempts to dismantle Medicare: the claim that market competition is the key to reducing health care costs. We have overwhelming evidence on this — and it just isn’t true.
Looking both within the United States and across countries, if you ask which systems are best at cost control, the ranking looks like this:Government provision as well as financing (socialized medicine) > single payer > market competition
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