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Some of the Left’s Ideas Start Going Mainstream
Terms of the national debate about issues such as health care and jobs are shifting.
“Cross the river by feeling the stones.”
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Things are shifting in the economic policy world. John Cochrane, an economist at the Hoover Institution and a staunch free-marketer, has been a leading critic of Obamacare and an advocate of a laissez-faire approach to health care. But in a recent blog post, he expressed sympathy for the idea of a single-payer health system:
This is actually closer to a public option (though Cochrane also suggests a system of government-run hospitals and clinics similar to the Veterans Health Administration).