Jacob Hornberger: Diagnosing America’s Health-Care Illness ….The United States once had the finest health-care system in the world, one based on the principles of economic liberty and the free market. That changed in a big way in 1965, when liberal statist Lyndon Baines Johnson secured passage of Medicare and Medicaid, socialistic programs that provided “free” [...]
Sometimes these talk radio shows really get me going. Today, Laura Ingraham mentioned the Washington Post’s Colbert I. King (The I. stands for “ignorant.”) comparing Tea Partiers to white supremacist David Duke, which is quite insulting to Tea Partiers, most of whom are not racists. And Michael Graham played a sound bite of the ACLU’s [...]
Russell D. Longcore: Health Care Legislation: The Future of Health Care in America ….Underwriting and actuarial considerations are worthless when an insurance company cannot calculate the limits of their loss exposures. Insurance ceases to be insurance…a transfer of risk…when there ceases to be any risk. Under (the new health care law), health insurance becomes a [...]
Gary Barnett: Why All the Angst Over Nullification? Just Do It! ….I don’t really care if a constitutional lawyer says that government-forced health insurance or any other welfare scheme is constitutional or not. In order to believe that, one would have to also believe that theft is then constitutional….But if one is going to refer [...]
Several times now, Rush Limbaugh has said that we must get rid of all Democrats and elect Republicans this November, even though he knows that the Republicans are just as responsible as Democrats for getting our country in the mess we’re in now. Plenty of Republicans voted for the Wall Street Bailout, the Medicare Prescription [...]
Jacob Hornberger: Why Conservatives Lost the Health-Care Battle ….Surrendering to the siren’s song of the statists, the American people embraced Medicare and Medicaid (and the welfare state), in the process ditching what was once the finest health-care system in the world, one based on freedom and free markets….. ….Friedrich Hayek, whose famous book The Road [...]
I have some further comments on my piece that appeared on LewRockwell.com this week, November, 2010: More Rearranging of Deck Chairs. I’m sure there will be many Republican gains in the House and Senate in November. However, have Republican takeovers really resulted in any dismantling or reducing of government? As I pointed out, the 1980 [...]
William Norman Grigg: Dr. Leviathan Will See You Now ….War requires the domestic regimentation of all private life and the confiscation of private property to accomplish the mass destruction of foreign property and the mass annihilation of foreign lives. Mass murder is the only undertaking in which government consistently out-performs its private sector competition. Yet [...]
November, 2010: More Rearranging of Deck Chairs, by Scott Lazarowitz March 22, 2010 Copyright © 2010 by LewRockwell.com. You’ve probably heard the expression, “Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic,” which refers to making futile changes to a failing situation. This November’s elections will be such a case of rearranging the deck chairs on Titanic [...]
In light of President Obama’s shackling of Americans even further with government medicine that will mirror the old Soviet Union, it is important to understand the differences between the current dysfunctional socialist system and the moral and practical superiority that a free market system would provide. If current proposals for government takeover of health care [...]
It looks like the House will be voting on Soviet Medical Disaster That Destroys America’s Freedom on Sunday, and already one state’s governor, Idaho’s Butch Otter, has signed legislation to sue the federal government if the bill does become law. The federal government will be inundated with lawsuits, and I’m sure that someone will immediately [...]
The reason why Stalinists Barack Obomber and Nancy Lugosi want to have the armed power of government hijack the entire medical system comes from their class-obsessed resentment of doctors and others who have actual expertise and abilities in medicine and who have achieved success, wealth and status from those abilities while at the same time [...]