Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Dear Senator Morse,
According to a recent Denver Post article about health care reform, you would answer that "yes," the legislature should "implement the pubic will":
State Sen. John Morse, a Colorado Springs Democrat who attended the forum, said the chicken-and-egg problem of the debate is that lawmakers are unlikely to be able ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
In honor of Independence Day, it is appropriate for today's post to concern the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson. After all, Patient Power is the health care blog of the Independence Institute.
Via a web search, one of the first pages I found was from RightToHealthCare.org, which attempts ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Richard Ralston, director of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine, makes this point in a recent article. An exerpt:
Would a complete government monopoly in medicine create a system in which politicians care primarily about you? Or about their spoils system? Would your disease be politically correct and place you first in ...
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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, June 12th, 2008
"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 ...
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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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