Must-Read: I don’t think any—statistically literate—conservatives believe Medicaid is worthless. Statistically illiterate ones may, and there may be many people who have taken great care to maintain their statistical illiteracy. But the truest core argument—if, as Thomas Hobbes once translated Thoukydides, “the least in speech”—is not that Medicaid is worthless, but that the lives of … Continue reading Must-Read: Ezra Klein: Conservatives believe Medicaid is worthless, so slashing it is harmless. They’re wrong