Healthcare is a Good, Not a Right

by Rep. Ron Paul Political philosopher Richard Weaver famously and correctly stated that ideas have consequences. Take for example ideas about rights versus goods. Natural law states that people have rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A good is...

Free Health Care, Treaties and a Fictitious History

by Rob Natelson, Electric City Weblog Government agencies and pressure groups campaigning for more taxpayerร‚ย money can create a fictitious รขโ‚ฌล“historyรขโ‚ฌย almost overnight. First, they make some claim about how something has been recognized since (whenever), and before...

Health Care: Free, Forced, and Fined

A new poll from NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health finds that a whopping 59 percent of Americans support punishing people for choosing to not get health insurance. NPR Reports: When asked whether they would support a broad...