Posted
Sep 2009
Code Red
Make No Little Plans or, How Republicans Can Be Meaningful Players in the Health Reform Debate
Professor David Dranove
In a virtual carbon copy of their previous Wall Street Journal op-ed pieces, John Kogan, Glenn Hubbard, and Dan Kessler recently (9/25/2009) offered the standard Republican critique of Democratic health reform proposals before laying out their own agenda. They are long on anti-government ideology and often fall short on economic principles. But mainly, their ideas lack the power to bring about real change. Daniel Burnham once said, “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood.” Republicans have become the anti-Burnhams.
