The Political Interest: Pat Moynihan's Healthy Gripe

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Where will it go from here? Moynihan seems charmed with a new approach being developed by Yale's James Tobin, a Nobel laureate in economics. No one will say what's coming, but "it can't be much," sniffs an Administration official. "Tobin's a great economist, but he doesn't know health care." Perhaps so, but it's the politicians who will fix America's health-care system, and dismissing someone Moynihan respects is a prescription for even more trouble than the President's plan already faces.

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