Against Politics

Toward a depoliticized society

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?  [...]

Government-run health care by another name

The co-ops that are being proposed to bring more choice and competition to health care are just the “public option” by another name and will drive private insurers out of business. As Michael T. Tanner writes for the Cato Institute: If a “co-op” is run by the federal government under rules imposed by the federal [...]

Theodore Dalrymple on rights and moral imagination

Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels) makes the following observation: When the supposed right to health care is widely recognized, as in the United Kingdom, it tends to reduce moral imagination. Whenever I deny the existence of a right to health care to a Briton who asserts it, he replies, “So [...]

Health care as a right?

To understand the background of the recent debates on health care it is instructive to look at how this issue  is being approached in “progressive” states like Oregon. Last year a Constitutional Amendment was discussed  which would declare access to health care in Oregon to be a “fundamental right.” But what is so progressive about [...]