> *New Yorker* staff writers Adam Gopnik and Malcolm
> Gladwell debate health care: specifically, the
> comparative strengths and weaknesses of the US and
> Canadian systems.
[...]
Posting this is kinda unfair, because the debate took place six years ago, and Gladwell announced on his blog this past weekend that he had changed his mind:
In our debate, Adam vigorously defended the Canadian system, and I attacked it. But wait! That was six years ago! I've now changed my mind. I now agree with virtually everything Adam said and disagree with virtually everything I said. In fact, I shudder when I read what I said back then.
http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/2006/02/gladwell_v_gopn.html
and:
Why have I changed my mind? Some of my reasons are in the piece on moral hazard I wrote for the New Yorker last summer.
The bigger reason is simply that I woke up one day and realized what much smarter people than me (Adam Gopnik) realized a long time ago, which is that the idea of employer-based health care is just plain stupid--and only our familiarity with it and sheer inertia prevent us
http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/2006/02/gladwell_v_gopn_1.html
Kevin Drum has also blogged this: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_02/008302.php
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Colin Brace
Amsterdam