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A few years ago, Arnold Kling, an economics professor at George Mason University, presented an interesting description of the type of health care system that Congress is planning to impose on all Americans. With Medicare’s unfunded liabilities in the multiple tens of trillions of dollars, it is like the Titanic sailing full speed ahead with icebergs all around. It is ultimately going to sink. There is no avoiding it on the current path. The proposed health system will add many trillions more in unfunded liabilities. It is the equivalent of adding more passengers to the Titanic and more icebergs to the freezing water. The utopian vision underlying the plan is a world where everybody can have everything without paying the price. Dr. Kling described an “iron trilemma” in healthcare, but I think that it can be modified and generalized for any type of social program. It is like a three legged stool that needs all three legs to stand. The first leg is acces.
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