“In response to what some opponents see as a Congress that doesn’t represent their interests, State Legislators are looking to the nearly forgotten American political tradition of nullification as a way to reject any potential national health care program that may be coming from Washington.” (more…)

“…If you think marching on D.C. or calling your Representatives, or threating to ‘throw the bums out’ in 2010 or 2012 or 20-whatever, is going to further the cause of the Constitution and your liberty – you might as well get your shackles on now. Your last chance has come and gone. …

“The real way to resist DC is not by begging politicians and judges in Washington to allow us to exercise our rights…it’s to exercise our rights whether they want to give us ‘permission’ to or not.

“Nullification – state-level resistance to unconstitutional federal laws – is the way forward.” (more…)

“Curious about how government-run health systems are working in other countries?” (more…)

They won’t fix his broken arm because he smokes. (more…)

“‘We have to do something about health care.’ The scariest word in that sentence is not ’something.’ It’s ‘we.’ The first-person plural form is not merely a convenience, as in ‘We’re in for a cold winter.’ It indicates that decisions about ‘the healthcare system’ should be made collectively, with one decision binding everyone. That’s collectivism.” (more…)

“Friedman noted that 56 percent of all hospitals in America were privately owned and for-profit in 1910. After 60 years of subsidies for government-run hospitals, the number had fallen to about 10 percent. It took decades, but by the early 1990s government had taken over almost the entire hospital industry.” (more…)

“This ‘free’ healthcare [in Canada] is not free. The money has to come from somewhere. It doesn’t grow on trees; it doesn’t just appear out of thin air, although this has been attempted via fiat stimulus injections. No, it comes from us. Looking us square in the eyes, the Canadian government has reached right into our pockets, pulled out our wallets and taken what they wanted. No questions asked. This is beyond theft.

“We have become economic hostages. I was under the impression that slavery was done away with long ago, however we have a new form of slavery. We are slaves to our government and its publicly funded programs. We welcomed it, we’ve preached it, and we school our kids in it.” (more…)

“Europeans very often are quite ignorant about the United States. The same way, American liberals are ignorant about the real situation in Europe. And it is not as beautiful as the liberals would want it. But every time I point that in a conversation, I get the same reply: ‘What about the free healthcare?’” (more…)

“From an economic point of view, a scarce good is a scarce good, whether it is medical care or sirloin steak. The problem is that government has piled intervention on top of intervention, and driving up the costs and making care less available in the process. The ‘failure’ of the present system is a government failure, period.” (more…)

“The actual solution to the problem of runaway medical costs lies in the precise opposite of the direction chosen by the Clinton [or Obama] plan. It is not the final destruction of the individual’s rational right to medical care, which is what the Clinton plan would achieve, but the restoration and full implementation of that right – that is, the removal of all government interference that stands between buyers and sellers of medical care or in any way causes medical care to be more expensive than it otherwise would be.” (more…)