Murphy's Law of Economic Policy Applied To Health Care

ECONOMIST ALAN Blinder once proposed Murphy's Law of Economic Policy, which goes in part: "Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed." The health-care debate is threatening to show Blinder's law in action.

Read the complete Washington Post editorial, "The third-best reform: How Congress ducks the problem of tax-free health insurance" published Sunday, October 25, 2009.