Joel Miller
Joel Miller
coming fact market plans population trying uninsured
Some plans are coming around to the fact that this is the fastest- and largest-growing population of the uninsured population -- they're trying to market some different plans.
concern confidence shiny system
I think there is a statewide concern that we have a shiny new system that no one has any real confidence will work.
clear gets
clear up any misunderstanding before it gets to that point.
care fact hope system wrong
I hope that I'm wrong. I hope that I'm wrong in that this system will take care of those problems. But the fact is, we just don't know.
cannot imagine rarely rights scenario side strong supporter
I cannot imagine under any scenario where he can win. Patrick Manning and I have rarely been on the same side on anything. I'm a strong supporter of women's rights and I'm pro-choice. I'm a supporter of labor.
issue main morality opposed policies
The main issue for me would be the policies of morality as opposed to economics.
government jumping demand
Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground.
government people benefits
Markets help people pursue their happiness more efficiently and effectively. Because they are so effective, markets provide benefits right here and right now, even while government is busy batching the protection of happiness.
government focus should
Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.
player reality government
Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc. Government is typically cumbersome, plodding, and slow.
quilts crazy law
Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness but instead are designed to secure the particular happiness of various advocacy groups, politicians and bureaucrats.
political favors reform
Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.
war thinking witch-trials
With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.
simple strings-attached drug
Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs, our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy -- comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.