In an article last year about how ObamaCare‘s empowers the Department of Health and Human Services to control insurance companies, Michael Cannon quotes economist Russ Roberts:

Economist Russ Roberts recently explained one of the main themes of Friedrich Hayek’s 1944 book The Road to Serfdom: “When the state has the final say on the economy, the political opposition needs the permission of the state to act, speak and write. Economic control becomes political control.” One need not agree with all of Hayek’s conclusions to see how Obamacare is threatening political freedom.

via Obamacare Silences Health Insurers | Michael F. Cannon | Cato Institute: Commentary.