Debate

How to Fix Health Care: Lasik Surgery For The Medical Debate

June 2nd, 2010

Make no mistake about it. Health care reform is coming. But what’s the best way to fix our health care system, which is an inefficient, complicated mess of private actors,…

National Health Insurance Debate Under Nixon

April 13th, 2010

In 1971, President Nixon proposed a national health insurance plan built on heavily employer private coverage. Senator Ted Kennedy proposed what would today be called a single-payer plan. In 1974, the…