Financing Medicare for All

A Modest Proposal Toward Democratic unity on Health Care

The proposals of progressives seeking the Democratic nomination for president, such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, to establish a universal federally-funded and administered health care system in the United States address real and unresolved policy and political problems. The most fundamental challenge for any health care system is what economists ...
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Political Economy and Unintended Consequences

A letter to the Central High Guys

I graduated from Philadelphia’s Central High School in 1960 in the 214th class. One of the great pleasures of my life has been my ongoing contact with a group of Central alumni, which in recent years has taken the form of an email list. In even more recent years the ...
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Political Economy and Unintended Consequences