Even mainstream economists recognize disease can be an exception to the market-usually-works rule
There’s an ironic twist to the fact that the White House of liberal-Democratic Barack Obama is at odds with the State House of somewhat-conservative-Republican Chris Christie of New Jersey over Governor Christie’s ordering a 21-day quarantine for health care workers returning from Ebola-struck areas of Africa. Mr. Obama is normally a supporter of aggressive government action while Mr. Christie is not — except when government-induced traffic jams on bridges his office controls can embarrass his political opponents. Earlier this year he fired his deputy chief of staff when her role in such a scheme came out.