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Missing the Point
- but my comment began to run long and I think works better as a regular
post.
the point. Here’s what I think is
the point.
is true after age 65; and the same is true when they die.
easier said than done, but they are no mystery. Search any variant of
"how not to be poor" and you will find them. For example, here is
some extremely useful, fundamental advice:
high school. Second, get married before you have children, and stay married.
Third, work at any kind of job, even one that starts out paying the minimum
wage. And, finally, avoid engaging in criminal behavior. If you graduate from
high school today with a B or C average, in most places in our country there's
a low-cost or financially assisted post-high-school education program available
to increase your skills."
a quality that has become uncomfortable for many modern Americans--personal
responsibility (2) the ideas don't fit the popular notion that in most cases
government assistance is necessary for most poor people, and (3) the ideas are not
intellectualized in some professorial research paper.
point, as I think this NBER Working Paper does.
That concept is the failure to be useful by missing the point.
the point by continually failing to distinguish medical insurance from medical
care. Somehow, it's all "healthcare" to them. But the two
are very different, and the difference matters.
expensive. The cost of medical
insurance is rising because the cost of medical care is rising. The cost of medical care is clearly the
more fundamental problem. But our
health policy leadership insists on “solving” that problem with federal
subsidies – that is, with insurance.
mislead the rest of us. This is no
way to lead a nation and it’s no way to solve the problem. America’s ineffective but highly
expensive medical care system over the past 50 years is ample proof of this. Obamacare is just another highly-expensive
non-solution, born of missing the point.
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