Monty Python on Health Reform

OK, Monty Python hasn’t commented on health reform, or not the current version of it anyway (as far as I know). But they did predict how Democrats would pass it (or nearly fail to do so). You see, way before the Democrats figured out they had the power to pass health reform all along, Monty Python went through similar reasoning. As with Monty Python’s soccer-playing philosophers (video below), the Democrats finally reached a eureka moment and put the ball in the net. It is a great idea whose time has finally come.

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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