All Posts Tagged With: "rationing"
There’s Some Good in Gouging
Karen Selick is an attorney in Ontario, Canada, and a columnist for Canadian Lawyer The great ice storm of January 1998 left millions of residents of Quebec and eastern Ontario in Canada (and in the northeastern United States) without electrical power, some for several weeks. The storm itself was unprecedented, but it brought with it [...]
1Apr1998 | Karen Selick | 0 comments | ContinuedLoved to Death: America’s Unresolved Health-Care Crisis
Dr. Hurd is a psychologist/author residing in Maryland. The Canadian health-care system of single-payer, socialized insurance is in trouble. Yet Congress and the president continue to push the American system in the same direction. As Canada’s national government slashes spending on medical care in order to reduce the deficit, local provinces are reducing medical staff. [...]
1Nov1997 | Michael J. Hurd | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Right to Medical Care
The idea of a right to medical care is so blithely tossed around that most people never take time to ponder the rather serious consequences that would flow from it. It is a classic pseudo-right. A pseudo-right is any claim expressed in rights language that would expand the power of the state at the expense [...]
1Sep1997 | Sheldon Richman | 8 comments | Continued-
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