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The ethical issue of universal coverage—Professor Hsiao’s “first question”—was not part of the conversation.

But no other country relies on for-profit insurance companies to pay for basic health care.

But the 2010 reform law did little to reduce the fragmentation of American health care; if anything, it will give us a system that is even more complex.

Countless other countries like ours—advanced, high-tech, free-market democracies—have found ways to collect the tax revenues they need without imposing long hours of tedious labor and large tax-preparer fees on their citizens. Their parliaments and their tax collectors are no smarter than their counterparts in the United States. The difference is,

But some Americans have been pressing their countrymen to deal with that “first question” as a foundation for building a new national health care system. Professor Uwe Reinhardt, the economist at Princeton University and global leader in the field of health care economics, argues that U.S. policy makers have deliberately avoided the moral question.

Hill genuinely cared about quality rail service and about public opinion.