{"id":455,"date":"2008-09-21T20:41:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T01:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2008\/09\/21\/greg-mankiws-blog-the-problem-with-audience-participation\/"},"modified":"2008-09-21T20:41:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T01:41:50","slug":"greg-mankiws-blog-the-problem-with-audience-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/21\/greg-mankiws-blog-the-problem-with-audience-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost: -The Right Question-Greg Mankiw&#039;s Blog: The Problem with Audience Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Paul Should have asked was, who would trade your health system with ours??<br \/>\nSaturday, September 20, 2008<br \/>\nThe Problem with Audience Participation<br \/>\nJames Taranto reports this recent interchange, during which economist Paul Krugman tries to make the case for a Canadian-style national health care system:<br \/>\nKrugman: &#8211;and I wanted to ask, actually two questions, to the audience. First, how many Canadians, would Canadians in the room please raise your hands. [One person applauds, laughter]<br \/>\nDonvan: We have about seven hands going up\u2014<br \/>\nKrugman: OK, not as many as I thought. OK, of those of you who are not on the panel who are Canadians, how many of you think you have a terrible health care system. [pause] One, two&#8211;<br \/>\nDonvan: We see\u2014almost all of the same hands going up. [laughter]<br \/>\nKrugman: Bad move on my part.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gregmankiw.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/problem-with-audience-participation.html\">Greg Mankiw&#8217;s Blog: The Problem with Audience Participation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Paul Should have asked was, who would trade your health system with ours?? Saturday, September 20, 2008 The Problem with Audience Participation James Taranto reports this recent interchange, during which economist Paul Krugman tries to make the case for a Canadian-style national health care system: Krugman: &#8211;and I wanted to ask, actually two questions, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/21\/greg-mankiws-blog-the-problem-with-audience-participation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost: -The Right Question-Greg Mankiw&#039;s Blog: The Problem with Audience Participation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}