Friday, July 31

Looking beyond the immediate

E.D. Kain has a perceptive take on the hidden profit motives in public insurance and why they're worse. He compares a single-payer monopsony to the Dutch system, which looks a lot more attractive.
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  1. Matt FlahertyFriday, July 31, 2009 at 9:15:00 PM CDT

    I love the idea of looking at the Dutch system, which appears to be working, and copying from it. One potential confound is that alternative explanations of why Dutch customers are satisfied might well exist--perhaps they are more culturally and economically homogeneous; it'd be nice to see a graph from this chap.

    But more to the point, I though this Kain fellow was weak in his follow up replies--I just don't trust him. Check out the discussion that he has with a blogger who brings up some pointed (perhaps too pointed) criticisms. Kain just gets defensive and accusatory rather than coming back with data -- makes it sound to me like his position is based more in ideology than in data.

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  2. Gherald LFriday, July 31, 2009 at 9:19:00 PM CDT

    Nah, Kain and all the gentlemen are good guys, that spat was atypical.

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