ON THE HEALTH INSURANCE DEBATE: Ezra's post here on Tapped, Paul Krugman's column (behind the firewall at the New York Times) and Joe Klein's contribution on the same issue make a good beginning for another round of debates on how to cure the health insurance crisis in this country. But I'm wondering why it is that Americans must reinvent the wheel every time. Are there not many, many countries which already have various forms of public and private and mixed health insurance systems? Are there not even countries with fairly similar ethnic and economic profiles? Would it be so very odd to have a look at what they are doing ? Could it be (gasp!) that we could actually learn something from those countries? Nah.
--J. Goodrich
