Robert E. Litan - Forbes.com

How to fix healthcare...Mr. Litan describes how private health insurance is stifling American business and the lays out his remedy: adjusting the tax treatment of private health insurance.

I am sure this would help literally thousands of already well-insured people, so, "Hear, hear!". Snark.

It reminded me of an old Monty Python sketch called "How To Do It!", in which the presenters breathlessly make their pitch:

Alan: Well, last week we showed you how to become a gynaecologist. And this week on 'How to do it' we're going to show you how to play the flute, how to split an atom, how to construct a box girder bridge, how to irrigate the Sahara Desert and make vast new areas of land cultivatable, but first, here's Jackie to tell you all how to rid the world of all known diseases.
Jackie: Hello, Alan.
Alan: Hello, Jackie.
Jackie: Well, first of all become a doctor and discover a marvellous cure
for something, and then, when the medical profession really starts to take
notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get
everything right so there'll never be any diseases ever again.
Alan: Thanks,
Jackie. Great idea. How to play the flute. (picking up a flute) Well here we
are. You blow there and you move your fingers up and down here.

It is so tiresome to keep hearing these inane ideas about tinkering at the edges of such a profoundly dysfunctional system.

Cheers,

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