The Politics of Controlled Crisis
17th June 2009
Megan McArdle looks at health care reform.
As far as I’m aware, the actual track record of heightened contradictions is pretty poor. The crisis tends to straggle on far longer than you thought possible, a large number of people suffer, and it turns out that you don’t get the exciting new system you were hoping for, but whatever terrible idea looked most expedient during the crisis. See Argentina, Nation of.