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_bpo | 9 years ago

> "cost disease" has become politicized

Citation needed. Where is this term common and where is it broadly discussed?

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lend000|9 years ago

It's not; I've never heard of the term before the article. I'm referring to the phenomenon itself. For example, Elizabeth Warren was recently quoted as measuring success in dollars spent: http://reason.com/blog/2017/01/19/on-entitlements-elizabeth-...

_bpo|9 years ago

"Entitlement programs" is politicized as a term, certainly. "Cost disease", though... possibly in search for a new keyword?

> I'm referring to the phenomenon itself.

From your example, Elizabeth Warren and Tom Price are looking at the same appearances (phenomena) and deriving different "noumena".