Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
In a previous post I challenged the notion that medical care is like services we receive from the fire department — a flawed analogy to justify politician-controlled single-payer health care. In it I claim that a more accurate analogy is that medical insurance is like homeowners or renters insurance.
Colorado single-payer advocate ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
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 ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
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 ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Follow up to: Colorado House Bill 1389: Having cake & eating it, too.
In the above post I noted how existing government controls drive up insurance premium costs and price controls are likely to exacerbate the problem by discouraging insurance companies from offering products. Over at Colorado Health Insurance Insider , ...
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