Dr Ferrari

Kevin Williamson wrote a piece last month in the National Review bemoaning the hand wringing he sees occurring across America surrounding the threat of millions of Americans losing their health coverage with the intended repeal of the ACA and its replacement with TrumpCare. He calls this piece: The "Right" to Health Care, with the scare quotes performing the task expected. (What? Did you think you had a "right" to health care when you get sick, silly boy?) appended with the self-answering subtitleThere isn't oneboldly patched in the space before the opening lede.He then goes on to construct a thought experiment utilizing children and apples to demonstrate that health care is a just scarce good and that all the nail biting over making sure all the kids get an apple is just cheap moralizing and coastal elite performative antics when, in the end, you only have 3 apples for 4 kids. Market forces, you see. Supply and demand. What is needed is not a national reckoning--- the likes of which every other advanced western democracy has done--- with the idea that health care is a service/good that ought to be made available to all Americans, like schools and public safety and national interstate highways, but rather we just need to empowerlaissez-fairesuper entrepreneurs to plant a few more apple trees. This is thought-experimenting in its most primitive form, using the bare minimum of neurons. Maybe 3 or 4 synapses get traversed at this cognitive leve...
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