As usual, a home run. Bravo! By coincidence I just started reading American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper Hardcover – March 29, 2016
by Jacob S. Hacker (Author), Paul Pierson (Author), which offers an excellent historical and contemporary analysis of the issues addressed in your reframing piece and supports it very nicely. This may be one of the most effective arguments we as Democrats can make. Now if you could just find us a super-charismatic leader to articulate these points to the general public....
When you write "A government program to test different methods of delivering Medicare found that, despite fifty different attempts, no-one was able to deliver better service at a better price than original government-run Medicare" -- can you cite where this info came from? I've never heard this before.
As usual, a home run. Bravo! By coincidence I just started reading American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper Hardcover – March 29, 2016
by Jacob S. Hacker (Author), Paul Pierson (Author), which offers an excellent historical and contemporary analysis of the issues addressed in your reframing piece and supports it very nicely. This may be one of the most effective arguments we as Democrats can make. Now if you could just find us a super-charismatic leader to articulate these points to the general public....
Antonia,
When you write "A government program to test different methods of delivering Medicare found that, despite fifty different attempts, no-one was able to deliver better service at a better price than original government-run Medicare" -- can you cite where this info came from? I've never heard this before.