Progressives discover scarcity
Posted on | August 13, 2009 | Comments Off by Aschwin de Wolf
In a witty post about government rationing versus market “rationing” Megan Mcardle notes that:
there is also a real difference between having something rationed by a process and having it rationed by a person…Using the government’s coercive power to decide the price of something, or who ought to get it, is qualitatively different from the same outcome arising out of voluntary actions in the marketplace.
No health care reform can eliminate the existence of scarcity. The question, therefore, is how scarce resources are allocated in health care; through individual choice and contract or through a command and obedience structure. The current health care proposals are yet another step in the direction of Authority.
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