Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.
Jonathan GruberUltimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight.
Jonathan GruberLack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.
Jonathan GruberObamacare's not imploding. The main goal of Obamacare was two-fold. One was to cover the uninsured, of which we've covered 20 million, the largest expansion in American history. The other was to fix broken insurance markets where insurers could deny people insurance just because they were sick or they had been sick. Those have been fixed, and for the vast majority of Americans, costs in those markets have come down, thanks to the subsidies made available under Obamacare.
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