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    "title": "Health Reform? Try Markets!",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>I think it is fair to conclude from this that the Massachusetts health reform plan, which in some ways is the model for the plans currently under discussion in Congress, was a failure. Thanks to Mark Ambinder for the pointer.</p>\n<p>Maybe the commission's proposal is a step in the right direction. Even if it is, I would suggest that perhaps no expert knows how to design the health care system. We may need a lot of trial and error. Government takeover means that you try something new every few years...maybe. Your choices are limited because entrenched interests preclude many options.</p>\n<p>With markets, trial and error takes place continuously. A lot more things get tried. Failure gets weeded out more ruthlessly.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/07/massachusetts_h_3.html\">Massachusetts Health Reform, Version 2.0?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty</a>.</em></p>\n"
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