April 20, 2007 9:24AM 

# Michael Cannon Dons a Bullseye 

By [Arnold Kling](https://www.cato.org/people/arnold-kling) 

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He might as well say “shoot me” when he [writes](http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=041807A),

> focus on the incentives facing the 250 million Americans who *have* health insurance, not on the estimated 47 million who don’t.

He’s right, but the terms of the debate are not going to change. So he is just setting himself up as a target for scorn. More [here](http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2007/04/downplaying_the.html).

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