Tag Archives: Ayn Rand

Be your “brother’s keeper,” or else!

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

It’s that fundamental belief — I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper — that makes this country work. — Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic National Convention …the future of America rests on how well we recognize that we … Continue reading →

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Nanny-state health care

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

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 … Continue reading →

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Moral argument for free-market health care

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

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 … Continue reading →

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Health care is not a right

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Brian T. Schwartz

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 … Continue reading →

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HB 1389: Curtailing profits at gunpoint

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Brian T. Schwartz

Critique of Colorado’s “Fair and Accountable Insurance Rates Act,” HB 08-1389. Continue reading →

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