My favorite Princeton Economist is back from vacation and stepping up to the plate over at the times with the first in a series of columns on the state of health care in the US:

To get effective reform, however, we'll need to shed some preconceptions - in particular, the ideologically driven belief that government is always the problem and market competition is always the solution.

If we can drive that notion home, we'll be halfway there, and it will get people thinking freely and creatively about all sorts of other things.