I have heard that Obamacare would be the most redistributionist federal program since…since what, I’m not too sure. But one does not hear, not very often, that opposition to the plan, from whatever quarter, is based upon opposition to economic redistribution. One could say that this motive is implicit in much of what one does hear. The insured are generally happy and outnumber the uninsured. There is therefore no great political impetus for reform at the popular level. I would nevertheless have thought that there would be more discussion of the redistributionist aspect of health-care reform and of the extent to which unhappiness about income redistribution motivates opposition to reform.
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