Health Care, Education and Trade Offs

Recently, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry tweeted, in reference to the current U.S. debate about health care reform:

Btw, for what it’s worth: I would totally trade single payer for school vouchers. Each party’s big “21st century civil rights” cause, right?

This doesn’t really apply to Canada (with us already having “single payer” – an incredibly poor description of who actually pays), but I’m totally on board with what he’s saying.  As much as I’d like to remain all ideologically pure and never compromise my principles, that’s not the way politics works.

So, I’m with PEG.  I’d be willing to accept to some of the excesses of our current welfare state if we’d bring in some sort of robust school choice initiative.

Now, dear readers, what sort of trade offs would you be wiling to make?

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