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Chicken-Down Economics: Sue Lowden's Healthcare Misconception is a Carryover From the Cult of Reagan
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| Contributor | Bob |
| Last Edited | Bob Apr 23, 2010 03:06pm |
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| Author | Meg White |
| News Date | Friday, April 23, 2010 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The leading Republican candidate to represent Nevada in the U.S. Senate, Sue Lowden, is getting a lot of press for the ridiculous alternative she's presented to her Democratic opponent's "government-run" healthcare, widely panned as "Chickens for Checkups." But a closer look at her suggestion reveals more than just short-sighted nostalgia and backwardness. Lowden's flap (and her inability to see it as a flap) illustrates the damage done by a blind adherence to supply-side economics.
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Lowden's harebrained scheme is likely a product of overconfidence in the "magic of the marketplace," as President Reagan called it (I said "likely" because there's always the possibility that Lowden is just insane). The way to fix any problem, according to such people, is to get the government's meddling fingers out and let supply and demand take over because, well, it's magical.
The most ridiculous thing about such people is that they're either in politics or hoping to be. Anyone who applies to fix a problem by insisting that said problem will be magically solved by not doing anything about it doesn't deserve the job.
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