January 26, 2009 2:47PM 

# Coordinated Care Versus Government 

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With such a diversity of health care options, some say that health care lacks coordination and integration. But does that failure to coordinate care indicate a failure of markets or government?

In today’s [Cato Daily Podcast](https://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=819), adjunct scholar Arnold Kling, who recently co-authored the Briefing Paper, “[Does the Doctor Need a Boss?](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9878),” discusses why a private overseer would be more beneficial to patients and doctors than a government bureaucracy.

“My view as a market person is that we really don’t know what the best health care system is yet,” says Kling. “…Let’s allow some trial and error experimentation by the market and let the market determine what the best system is.”

Kling is the co-editor of [EconLog](http://econlog.econlib.org/), a weblog devoted to economic issues and author of several books, including [*Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care*](http://www.catostore.org/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&pid=1441301).

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