Archive | August, 2009

Government health care is not concerned with patients. Politicians’ interest is primarily focused on the productive—in the U.S., about one-third the population. Government has no income other than what it confiscates from the productive. So, promises of “affordable health care” depend on the able while devouring life from them. In other words, parasitism. Some people [...]

A person who is in the pay of the government is not always free to speak publicly about the most pressing issues he confronts. Administrators who are appointed to perform specific tasks are generally not free to contradict or even to challenge policies. They often cannot advocate for specific proposals, even if they think that [...]

The new year begins as employees begin a process called open enrollment–when many employees designate a health plan through their employer. Unfortunately, most are forced to enroll in a managed care plan, i.e., an HMO or PPO. That’s right: force actually lies at the core of today’s health care system. From their beginnings, HMOs were [...]

Amid talk that the administration will re-name its plan for socialized medicine after the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy and re-package the national health care campaign as an American tribute to a 47-year veteran of the U.S. Senate who persistently opposed capitalism, comes word that the President of the United States will deliver the eulogy [...]

When parents plunk down $20, $30, $40 and maybe $50 thousand this fall for a year’s worth of college room, board and tuition, it might be relevant to ask: What will their children learn in return? The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) ask that question in their recently released publication, “What Will They [...]

Many of the issues of our times are hard to understand without understanding the vision of the world that they are part of. Whether the particular issue is education, economics or medical care, the preferred explanation tends to be an external explanation– that is, something outside the control of the individuals directly involved. Education is [...]

Dear Mr. Scott, I was shocked to read that Wal-Mart’s supports socialized medicine. Having asked for a donation to our Tea Party Association here in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I was told that Wal-Mart’s policy is not to involve itself in political movements. So, upon hearing of your support for socialized medicine I thought that maybe [...]