Re:Public Fried Chicken (by Scott Banister)
by gabrielroth on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @11:01PM
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I just logged on to post the exact same paper.
To anyone who doesn't want to download the pdf linked above: it's Kenneth Arrow's economics paper "Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care." It launched the field of health-care economics. It demonstrates that health care is not like fried chicken. It was published in 1963.
Of course, there are counter-arguments to be made. But an argument comparing health care to fried chicken without taking Arrow's work into account is a worthless argument.
To anyone who doesn't want to download the pdf linked above: it's Kenneth Arrow's economics paper "Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care." It launched the field of health-care economics. It demonstrates that health care is not like fried chicken. It was published in 1963.
Of course, there are counter-arguments to be made. But an argument comparing health care to fried chicken without taking Arrow's work into account is a worthless argument.