Why Are All Health Care Reformers Protectionists?

October 20, 2010

David Leonhardt outlines an interesting proposal to reduce the cost of Medicare. He challenges readers to come up with alternatives.

There is an easy and simple one that health care reformers appear unwilling to consider. Let Medicare patients buy into the more efficient health care systems in other countries and split the savings. According to the Congressional Budget Office’s projections, these savings will rise into the tens of thousands per beneficiary per year.

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