Yuval Levin on Burke, Paine, and the Great Debate
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Federalism and the Trial and Error Aspect of Markets and Government Policy
In a country this big, almost no national program is going to have much of a chance of working. I'd get rid of the subsidies that government provides for health care through both explicit programs like Medicare and Medicaid. The left says we make it more efficient by centralizing it and subjecting it to expert control. The right says we make It more efficient by allowing it to be run on the ground between buyers and sellers.
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