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HEALTH CARE IS NOT A RIGHT   LEONARD PEIKOFF
So long as people believe that socialized medicine is a noble plan, there is no way to fight it. The only way you can defeat it is to unmask it—to show that it is the very opposite of noble.

THE GREAT WAIT   MICHAEL TANNER
The one common characteristic of all single-payer health-care systems is that they ration care.

HEALTH CARE IS A BUSINESS—OR SHOULD BE   RICHARD E. RALSTON
Ultimately all health care is paid for by business activity. The total added value the government creates for your benefit is nothing.

THE UNIVERSAL DISTRACTION   ARNOLD KLING
"Nobody is talking about a free-market approach in health care. The spectrum today is between fascism and Communism."

HILLARIZING HEALTH CARE   PETER FERRARA
There is no market in these plans to control costs. So the government must do it through the only alternative—rationing.

ALL POWER TO THE POST OFFICE   RICHARD E. RALSTON
A talk radio host told me that all private health insurance should be eliminated. The same reasoning would require the government to outlaw FedEX, UPS and other private carriers, and force everyone to use the U.S. Postal Service exclusively.

IMAGINE! LIFE WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE   THOMAS SOWELL
Few people show the slightest interest in what has actually happened in countries with government-controlled medical care.

HEALTHY AND WISE   NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE
The tax code has underwritten a large share of our medical inflation.

CALLING DOCTOR RUDY   NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE
Giuliani's plan would level the playing field; individual ownership of health insurance would no longer be penalized at all.

EYES ON CALIFORNIA AS LAWMAKERS PURSUE A HEALTH-CARE DEAL   CHRISTOPHER LEE
"If a breakthrough could occur in California, it would really be an earthquake in terms of health reform."

AGAINST UNIVERSAL COVERAGE   NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE
Deregulating health insurance would make it more affordable, and thus increase the number of Americans with coverage.

BILL RICHARDSON'S HEALTH CARE BOONDOGGLE   PAUL J. GESSING
Richardson has not avoided the siren song of "universal" health care that has charmed all the Democratic challengers for president.

MOORE "WORLD OF WE"   RICH LOWRY
Anyone in a country with government-provided health insurance is portrayed as tripping through daisies to the hospital, where everything is free and the care is perfect. America, in contrast, is a vista of unrelieved gloom.

ILLINOIS TAX IMPLOSION   OPINION JOURNAL
Presidential candidate John Edwards has already proposed a huge tax increase to pay for national health care. At least he's honest about what such promises require.

THE CURE IS FREE!   DEROY MURDOCK
"Just as Delaware became a magnet for banking, some states will become magnets for health insurance."

DEBATABLE ASSUMPTIONS   ARNOLD KLING
It is possible to agree on goals but disagree on assumptions about what will achieve those goals. In fact, political opponents disagree primarily in their assumptions rather than in their goals.

INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM VS. GOVERNMENT CONTROL   TOM COBURN, REGINA HERZLINGER
Costs are controlled by rationing health care to the sick. More than 20,000 Brits would not have died from cancer in the U.S.

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