From
The Next New Deal ("The blog of the Roosevelt Institute"):
What we often refer to as Category A can be viewed as a “neoliberal” approach to social insurance, heavy on private
provisioning and means-testing. This term often obscures more than it
helps, but think of it as a plan for reworking the entire logic of
government to simply act as an enabler to market activities, with
perhaps some coordinated charity to individuals most in need.
This contrasts with the Category B grouping, which we associate with
the New Deal and the Great Society. This approach creates a universal
floor so that individuals don’t experience basic welfare goods as
commodities to buy and sell themselves. This is a continuum rather than a
hard line, of course, but readers will note that Social Security and
Medicare are more in Category B category rather than Category A. My man
Franklin Delano Roosevelt may not have known about JavaScript and agile
programming, but he knew a few things about the public provisioning of
social insurance, and he realized the second category, while
conceptually more work for the government, can eliminate a lot of
unnecessary administrative problems.
Via
The Dish (more discussion at both links). Cartoon from
The New Yorker.
"5. does all this to ensure better provisioning outcomes, using government's scale and efficiency"
ReplyDeletegovernment's scale and efficiency - I think that kind of thwarts the idea of better provisioning outcomes.
From the Dish link: "But countries like Switzerland and the Netherlands demonstrate that an Obamacare-like system can work reasonably well too." Switzerland and the Netherlands are demographically and culturally different, completely, from the United States.
ReplyDeleteAh, I see. Minorities and ethnic minorities don't need health care in the same ways that good white folks like you do....
DeleteActually, Obama went with a (very conservative) Heritage Institute designed health care plan in order to get Republicans onboard the ACA. However, they were bound and determined to do everything in their power to ensure that Obama would be a One Term President (since the election, they are doing everything they can to ensure that he leaves no legacy), and so not a single Republican voted for it. What Obama SHOULD have done was to start with a single payer, Government Run plan, and then let the Republicans negotiate it down to what became the ACA.
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