An opinion piece on a piece of punditry. Noteworthy because it highlights conservative pro-corporate Will's complaint that it ain't fair for the non-profit government to compete with for-profit insurance companies. Will is a porpogandist. I don't know if Silver is a pundit (an opinion on everything, an expert on nothing), but at least he presents an argument from economics which explains why the insurance industry is by nature non-competitive. Interesting piece.

Silver develops the basis that health insurance is effectively a monopoly, but fails to state that and thence fails to state that in a monopoly, free market assumptions are trashed. He also does not mention the public hate for health insurance providers who deny or delay coverage, and then give the CEOs million dollar bonuses.

For an opinion piece, it is fair in the way it depicts both sides of the issue. It is insightful and contextual in its analysis, though the short course in marginal utility is a bit difficult to follow.

It turns a George Will point over on its head. Bully!