donald trump has stopped cold the liberal march toward single-payer health care and more central planning. but what comes after obamacare? <u+201c>deregulating and devolving power to states and consumers to innovate and experiment would allow insurance products and prices to reflect what consumers want,<u+201d> notes a journal editorial . lawmakers should now approach the debate <u+201c>with humility and build a stable and durable political consensus. democrats never even tried this in 2009 and 2010, and they imposed a single <u+2018>comprehensive<u+2019> solution on a large and diverse country of 320 million people. other than obamacare, there<u+2019>s no law that says texas and california must have the same priorities,<u+201d> adds the editorial board . click here to receive this daily opinion summary via email. speaking of california, mrs. clinton <u+2019>s advantage of 2.7 million votes in that state alone <u+201c>accounts for more than her projected margin of victory of about two million<u+201d> in the nationwide popular vote, observes a separate editorial . but <u+201c>the electoral college, for all its imperfections, is still a better way to choose a president,<u+201d> writes the editorial board . ... larry arnn adds that the electoral college ensures americans <u+201c>are not ruled as colonies from a bunch of blue capitals, nor from a bunch of red ones.<u+201d> as for why mrs. clinton couldn<u+2019>t win enough states this year, our columnist william mcgurn traces the democratic failure to the monica lewinsky scandal of the 1990s. that<u+2019>s when bill clinton turned left as moderate democrats criticized him and liberals came to his defense. since then, the party has continued its leftward drift . <u+201c>what marks this year<u+2019>s democratic primary was how antediluvian it all was: a battle between mrs. clinton and an aging socialist, each trying to outdo the other in how much he/she would tax, spend and redistribute,<u+201d> writes mr. mcgurn . former reagan economic adviser martin feldstein surveys the huge reform opportunities in economic policy that await the president-elect. these include tax cuts and tax simplification to drive investment and economic growth. also, although <u+201c>ending nafta would be a mistake, trade experts agree that nafta would benefit from being updated to reflect changes in the economy that have occurred in the past 22 years,<u+201d> writes mr. feldstein . <u+201c>the european union greeted donald trump<u+2019>s election with gnashing of teeth and a typically chaotic <u+2018>emergency summit<u+2019> in brussels over the weekend,<u+201d> notes a journal editorial . <u+201c>europeans like to lecture americans about their political choices even as americans always seem to be coming to europe<u+2019>s rescue. before panicking about mr. trump, perhaps europe<u+2019>s leaders should meet him .<u+201d> also today, mit<u+2019>s robert pozen says that his colleague bengt holmstrom, who is due to accept a nobel prize in economics next month, has come up with a better way to ensure stock-option awards align the interests of shareholders and ceos .
what comes after obamacare? - wsj
james freeman