Tuesday, October 29, 2013

"Why Did This Thing Have to Be So Complicated in the First Place?"

"In saying this I don’t mean to excuse the officials and contractors who made such a mess of health reform’s first month. Nor, on the other side, am I suggesting that health reform should have waited until the political system was ready for single-payer. For now, the priority is to get this kludge working, and once that’s done, America will become a better place.
"In the longer run, however, we have to tackle that ideology. A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn’t have to be that way."

Paul Krugman in The New York Times discusses Steven Teles's idea of "kludgeocracy."

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