For a long time, I was unsettled by Paul Hackett's lack of any clear statements on health care. He had the right positions on abortion and gay marriage, but he wrapped them and his gun control views in a sort of brash libertarian rhetoric that got me worried. Sure, it was a good way to sell these positions to the unconvinced and not sound wimpy, but did his libertarianism extend to the economic sphere? Would he dismiss good health care proposals as "socialized medicine" and insist on market based-solutions that have left America with an overpriced and dysfunctional system?
His recent Meet the Bloggers interview has me all happy. He goes out of his way to talk about the need for health care reform, uses our favorite s-word, and praises Norway. (Norway? Norway!) It's a long interview, so I've excerpted the coolest parts below.
