Government Medicine vs. the Elderly

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Author(s) Rupert Darwall
Source The Wall Street Journal
Date September 15, 2009
URL http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203917304574412680569936844.html
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Quotes-start.png "The case for ObamaCare, as with the NHS, rests on what might be termed the "lump of health care" fallacy. But in a market-based system triggering one person's contractual rights to health care does not invalidate someone else's health policy. Instead, increased demand for health care incentivizes new drugs, new therapies and better ways of delivering health care. Government-administered systems are so slow and clumsy that they turn the lump of health-care fallacy into a reality." Quotes-end.png


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