John LaPlante Gets Sarcastic
Anyone who doesn’t yet read State House Call should start, if only for John LaPlante’s awesome reactions to statements like this one. After Kansas’ insurance commissioner declared that sick people should be able to purchase insurance as if they were healthy, LaPlante responded:
Yeah, it would be great if I could walk into Best Buy and come out with a 50 inch TV and not have to pay for it.
Plus, he explains economic principles. Read the whole thing.
Thanks for the kind words. I think it’s easy to overuse sarcasm, so I don’t indulge in it much. But the comments of the insurance commissioner were so … foolish … that they deserved that kind of response.
By the way, the king of snark, at least by my lights, is Chris Schneider of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. See http://www.wpri.org/blog/
Comment by John LaPlante — April 29, 2009 @ 5:02 p.m.