Comments on: Big Business Goes Big for Health Care Reform

By: Unfettered Government: Live It Up Edition

Unfettered Government: Live It Up Edition — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:31:55 +0000

[...] Big Business Goes Big for Health Care Reform “What disturbs Americans of all ideological persuasions is the fear that almost everything, not just government, is fixed or manipulated by some powerful hidden hand,” Frank Rich wrote in the New York Times a few months ago. [...]

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:18:33 +0000

Certainty or Mystery?
Clay Barnham summarized it well, however, I will attempt to simplify and clarify.
True believers have certainty in mystery supported by evidence.
Politicians (stateists) have certainty in evidence manufactored by tyrants.

By: Clay Barham

Clay Barham — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:30:31 +0000

VISIBLE OR INVISIBLE HAND
Which do most people want? Do they want what politicians claim is the rational, real and predictable visible hand running the economy? Or, would they prefer what Adam Smith called the Invisible Hand leading the way? The realistic, determined visible hand gives us a feeling of certainty without mystery, and most of us do not like mystery, except in novels. However, history in the last 400 years have shown us that the mystery of the uncertain invisible hand is the only economic system, if you can call a mysterious force a system, to produce prosperity and greater human happiness. Where does it come from? It comes from all the thoughts out of bubbles of restrictive tradition and actions out of the box by free men and women, because they had no fear of offending a monarch. Their thoughts and acts cannot be predicted, however. The results are an uncertain mystery. No rational academic could ever stand and support the unknown against the known, even though reliance on the unknown made America the richest, freest nation in the world. Leave mystery to the novelist, certainty to the politician and God help the rest of us. Claysamerica.com

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:12:38 +0000

In health care legislation there is talk of “preventive medicine”. I’m not sure exactly when it happened but the pharmaceutical companies have stolen “preventive medicine” and made it their own. They call “preventive medicine” getting more and more people on medicines before they really need it and before a serious disease condition develops. “Preventive” used to mean…exercise, nutrition, rest, detoxing and destressing. Now it means popping more pills…so of course the big Pharms are going to like a health care bill that supports “prevention”. Just look at the flu “prevention” program.

By: Monsieur Bastiat, Call Your Office | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty

Monsieur Bastiat, Call Your Office | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:53:01 +0000

[...] those whom the criminal justice system has forgotten. Robert Higgs looks at the case for slavery. John Stossel finds it curious that big pharmaceutical and big insurance companies like Obama’s healthcare [...]