Malcolm Gladwell apparently believes if he Blinks enough anything will be true. He writes in the New Yorker
that Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are a bad idea and that moral
hazard is nothing to worry about with health care. Among the poor ideas
he includes are: ” ‘The main effect of putting more of it [health
spending] on the consumer is to reduce the social redistributive
element of insurance,’ the Stanford economist Victor fuchs says.” This
ignores the ability of individuals to choose their own coverage in most
other types of insurance.

Gladwell also pulls out the Krugman myths that “automakers are increasingly moving their operations to Canada,” and that national health insurance is the reason.

Meanwhile,
as we all know, Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled that it’s system is
unconstitutional. Europe has its own problems. And in Japan, a Tokyo hospital
has become the first in that country to issue tradeable bonds–the
first to help the government cut its costs. Japan’s rapidly aging
population and fiscally-strapped government are a bad combination, so
the government is pushing more costs to consumers and other private
sources. Sorry, Malcolm.