health insurance, the President hopes to get Washington out of the busi- ness of directly providing services, and thus to cut administrative costs. Some liberals also like vouchers because they may ultimately transfer more income to the poor and would spare recipients the indignity of standing in line for "handouts."
Experience shows vouchers can work. The $1 1.2 billion food-stamp program helps feed some 22 million Americans. Intermittently since 1944, the federal government, in effect,...