Last week I challenged the view that health care should be a government service because it is allegedly like police protection. A similar analogy is to the fire department. Advocating single-payer health care, Michael Moore tells NPR:
That you should not have a private, profit-making insurance company in the middle between ...
"Profit is a perverse incentive for quality health care: imagine for-profit fire or police protection," writes Michelle Swenson in support of single-payer health care. Louise at Colorado Health Insurance Insider has made the same comparison. Most notably, Michael Moore has also.
In this post I'll address the police analogy. (I address ...
To:
Stephen Kapanos, Vice President Public Policy & Advocacy
Bill Lindsay and Penfield Tate, Health Care Committee, Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce
Elisabeth Arenales, Esq., Director, Health Care Program, Colorado Center on Law and Policy
Mental Health America of Colorado, Colorado Center on Law and Policy, and the Denver Metro Chamber of ...
Continuation of my critique of the AFL-CIO commentary here and here.
In their Denver Post commentary, AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo say that Hillary and Obama are correct to be
skeptical of the idea that the market is the right entity to put in charge.
Are they saying that the ...
In 1946, Ayn Rand wrote a letter to Leonard Read concerning his proposal to establish the Foundation for Economic Education .1 In the letter she explained the importance of making the moral argument for free markets, rather than using arguments from economics and leaving the moral high ground to the ...
Last Saturday I attended a Front Range Objectivism event featuring Yaron Brook , Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute . His talk reminded me that I have yet to address a fundamental issue on this blog: that health care is not a right. As Brook wrote in an ...
Earlier this month The Rocky Mountain News published a commentary of mine about the inherent immorality of government-run charities (in this case, those for children's health insurance) and a proposal to challenge such charities to compete with voluntarily-funded charities.
The budget: An “immoral document”
A “moral document.” This is what Colorado House ...
