Phasing out Medicare

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Congressman Paul Ryan has outlined a "comprehensive legislative plan called 'A Roadmap for America's Future' in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal . Despite its scary big-government sound, it has some good proposals for medical insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security: [T]here is a growing, bipartisan consensus about the greatest threat to our ...

Republicans: Don’t wuss out on health care!

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Here's my take on Republicans: they give lip service to individual rights, freedom, and free-markets, but when it comes to legislation, it's Socialism-lite. Nobel Laureate F.A. Hayek said as much in his 1960 essay "Why I am not a Conservative" : ...the decisive objection to any conservatism which deserves ...