The end of health insurance
At Alternative Right Richard Hoste wonders whether the decision to turn insurance companies into public utilities that administer entitlements is a deliberate decision to destroy health insurance in order to set the stage for further government involvement or simply reflects a poor understanding of economics: There are two possible explanations of what the Democrats are [...]
Politicized health insurance
Heather Mac Donald draws attention to the gradual transformation of private health insurers to highly regulated providers of entitlements: Democrats (and some Republicans) regularly bash health insurance companies for not covering preexisting conditions. But isn’t that like expecting a home insurance company to write a policy for fire after your house has already burned down? [...]
The destruction of self-help by state intervention
The Independent Institute’s quarterly Independent Review is a worthy publication. The journal produces well researched and innovative scholarly articles in the classical liberal tradition, avoiding excessive emphasis on “public policy libertarianism” on the one hand, and avoiding an exclusive emphasis on a single school of economic thought (such as Austrian Economics) on the other. The [...]
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