If none of the options in the health reform debate strike you as particularly appealing, maybe that’s because one of the most popular options has been ruled off-limits by for consideration:

While Republican types freak out about the idea that government reform of health care will somehow involve government — economist Arthur Laffer’s “Just wait till you see Medicaid and Medicare run by the government!” was a classic of the genre — most people I know seem to be heading in the opposite direction. Why, they ask, is Congress spending so much time and money patching a system that is fundamentally broken?… [read more]