In this week\’s edition of The Week In Blog at Bloggingheads.tv, The Heritage Foundation\’s Conn Carroll pushed an argument voiced by another conservative blogger Patrick Ruffini: that the initial intention of the public health insurance option was to create a Trojan Horse that would bring about single-payer health care and the demise of private insurance. The proof? Prof. Jacob Hacker\’s original policy papers.
As Ruffini blogged: \”It was first raised in 2007 by Berkeley economist Jacob Hacker, and popularized as a device that would \”someday magically turn into single payer.\” … reading through the founding documents of the public option is about as damning as if one got ahold of a secret dossier of Milton Friedman\’s proclaiming school vouchers a necessary \’compromise\’ that would eventually usher in the death of public education in America.\”
One problem with that story: the \”founding documents\” from Hacker say the exact opposite.
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