Namely, Professor Walter Williams. He comments here on the undesirability of turning our health care over to government functionaries who have nothing to gain by providing good service and nothing to lose if they provide bad service.
I especially like the good professor’s line that he isn’t against socialized medicine, provided that he isn’t dragged into it. That’s the great thing about freedom: Those who want some sort of collectivist arrangement for health care or anything else can set it up among themselves, but people who don’t are at liberty to do something else. The trouble with coercive utopians like Edwards, Hillary and indeed most politicians of both major parties is that they won’t leave people free to make their own choices, but insist on dictating their preferences to everyone.
