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If we can put a man on the moon, we can re-write the basic lawsof supply and demand and get more quality health care, dispensed byfewer providers per patient, at lower prices for all Americans.Sure we can. Just like we ended poverty with the Great Society, andlike we'll impose liberal democracy on the corrupt oligarchy rulinga collection of tribes known as Afghanistan.

Landing humans on the lunar surface looks like an easily do-abledream when set beside many of the ideologically and anecdotallydriven social, economic, and foreign policy nightmares cooked up bypublic officials in the last half-century of big government. Thattruth is explored in the appropriately titled book, If We Can Put a Man on the Moon...: Getting Big Things Done inGovernment (though, it should be noted, the...