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Why The Left Doesn’t Understand Health Care

June 5, 2019 by Richard Walker

Have you ever wondered why it’s so difficult to talk to a liberal about health care? Or why there is such a passionate desire on the left to remake everyone’s health insurance, even though 80% of Americans (according to Gallup) rate their health coverage as “excellent” or “good”?

Most of what the left has to say about health policy makes no logical sense. That’s mainly because they don’t understand health economics. And that’s because they tend to reject the economic way of thinking as such.

John Goodman, President of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research, a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of the widely acclaimed book, Priceless, in a recent post for Forbes explained all this in detail. [Read More]

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