Excerpt: The Bush administration, for its part, has failed to offer a coherent alternative to piecemeal nationalization of health care. [T]he increasingly successful campaigns to privatize Social Security ... suggest a way out: mandatory private health insurance. Under this system, ...purchasing health insurance would be not much different from buying car or homeowner's insurance today. As a result, we could preserve and extend the advantages of a free market with a minimal amount of coercion.

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