The 'Economist' and American health care

(Blog Post) This is a standard Economist trick - propose some form of statism and defend it by saying even we, the free market ones (the European meaning of "economically liberal"), are in favour of this statism. Of course the Economist never actually produces any evidence that it is pro-free market - but it is at trick it has been using since Walter Bagehot (the second editor, the first editor actually was a free market man) so I suppose it is a lie hollowed by history. Full Story »

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Kenneth L Salzman, PhD
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by Kenneth L Salzman, PhD - Mar. 8, 2011

This is not a story, it is a rant, and not a very well worked out (or spelled) one at that. The author has an admitted bias and that is pretty much all that is in evidence in the piece.

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