Robert Samuelson has another piece complaining about how much we spent on health care costs. Of course he is right, but the problem is not that patients are getting too much care, it is that they are paying way too much for the care they get. If our political system is too corrupt to allow us to fix the health-care system then we can look to take advantage of the more efficient health-care systems in other countries. That is what free traders would suggest.
--Dean Baker
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