Post-Modernism and Health Care

Dr. Edward Tingley makes the point that there is no universal idea of health in his talk: Recognizing Post-Modernism. Here’s a link to this talk at Augustine College, where Dr. Tingley preaches. He’ll also be speaking at our conference this July. This point is important. Can you have a free people if the government is [...]

Freedom, Mandates, and Financial Solvency (with an implied comment on the power of naming)

Rep Paul Ryan wrote a rather tepid response to the health funding and decision making  plan that President Obama passed into law yesterday. It was published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Of all the parties in the discussion, Rep Ryan has presented the most clear alternative, so he’ll be interesting to watch over the next few [...]

Treating Cancer With Sugar, Or Mortification Without Representation

I have been avoiding commenting too much on the so-called health care plan for two reasons: first, I don’t want this blog to be seen as political, and second, I haven’t felt confident that I know well enough what is involved in the law. Besides, I have no doubt that what follows is a paranoid [...]

Could a Politician have been less than up front? No…

This, it would seem to me, is important. It might underscore the depth of Obama’s hypocricy, or it might simply show that the health care plan we were offered was 1. a disaster, and 2. not what Obama said it was. I can’t see how it can be seen favorably unless the writer is simply [...]

Scholastic Welfare: Meet Medical Welfare

If you wonder what the new health care system will look like, the public schools would be a good object for study. You can find private schools and some of them strive to be affordable. But if you want a real education, you had better be able to fork out the tuition ranging from $10,000 [...]

Cato reviews health care

You can’t get a detailed discussion through the media, but if you are taking this health care debate seriously (and God help America if you aren’t), this ABC news bit does a nice job of framing some of the key points. I found 2:35-3:16 particularly important. As one who is gravely concerned about both the [...]

What is a totalitarian state?

In general I don’t like to comment on political developments because there is so much smoke and so much heat generated by so much media that it is counterproductive to add to it and because it is too hard to figure out what is actually going on. Politics is political so almost everything everybody says [...]

Tom Price on Health Care

I need to hear more details, but this seems like an important response to the health care plan. The thing we can’t forget is that once this program is put in place, it can’t be undone. The people who support this plan know that. This has almost nothing to do with improving our health and almost [...]

Nature and Health Care

The great eneny of nature is utility. Power finds the restrictions nature places on it obnoxious and irritating. Marketers play on this frustration when they present products with “no limits” and other meaningful language. But nature won’t give in. It always wins. That realization enables one to anticipate developments in health care. Whether we switch [...]

How dead is England?

So far as I can tell, this article is entirely serious. The use of the acronym NICE is somewhere between hilarious and terrifying. The story of Leslie Burke is what made the article worth posting. I am opposed to health care as it is presently structured for one basic reason: it puts too much power [...]