Canada's Health Care 'Refugees'0

• October 1, 2009

Sometimes, patriotism can be awkward. Especially when it means admitting to an international TV audience that your nation’s broken health care system forced you onto welfare, into adult diapers, and hobbling with a walker. And all before the age of 30.

Health Care Is Not a Privilege … Nor Is It a Right0

• September 8, 2009

A popular but flawed argument is that “health care is a right, not a privilege.” Health care is neither a right nor a privilege. Rather, we all have the right to seek medical treatment through voluntary trade or charity.

Whose Business is Your Health Care?0

• September 4, 2009

Our ongoing debate about government’s role in health care is proving worthwhile because it forces people to focus on the real tradeoffs in a system mandated — if not directly operated — by government, rather than one selected by individuals or their employers. Today, our system is a dysfunctional hybrid.

Michael Bennet Should Oppose Democrat Health “Reform”0

• August 17, 2009

Senator Michael Bennet says that “health care reform must shift control from insurance companies to doctors, nurses and their patients.” If so, he should oppose the Democrats’ so-called health care “reform.” Insurance companies have too much control because politicians have handed it to them through tax laws that give preferential treatment to employer-provided insurance.

Health Care Protests on Target0

• August 6, 2009

Now we know the enemy in the health-care debate, the really, truly despicable people, the worms who ought to be stuffed back in the dirt they crawled out of. It’s ordinary citizens who have had the temerity to show up at meetings of their representatives in Congress, asking in so many words — “What in the name of heaven are you planning to do with our lives?”

A Health Care “System” is the Problem0

• July 20, 2009

In response to the question: “As Congress debates health care reform, tell us what — if anything — you think should be changed about the U.S. health care system?”

Having a health care “system” is itself the problem. It implies that politicians dictate your medical choices, at your expense, regardless of whether their “system” serves your individual needs and preferences.