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Obama’s First Econ Lesson

April 27, 2009

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Education is expensive, consumes a lot of time and the payoff is not worth the trouble. This is a very early wake up call on socializing medical care in the US.

Education is expensive, consumes a lot of time and the payoff is not worth the trouble. This is a very early wake up call on socializing medical care in the US.

The econ lesson? When you lower the price you get less of it. This is a good preview of what will happen to little chemical compounds we call legal drugs that save millions of lives every day if you start instituting price controls to “protect” people from “evil” pharmaceutical companies.

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