Sunday, September 28, 2008

This is Good News?

From the NYT (via Marc Thoma):
Without health care as the economy’s most powerful economic locomotive, economic growth during President George W. Bush’s first term would have been so anemic that he most probably would have lost the election in 2004.
Link. Two things:
  • What with the Walmartification and Costcoizing of health care, we may very well see health costs go down in the near future. Will this be bad news?
  • Can a nation grow rich as we all take out each others' appendix?

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