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...managed care are not the only ways to bring free-market discipline into Medicare. In fact, by retaining the basic principle of insurance, they preserve health care as a salad bar where you can eat as much as you want at no extra cost. The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, wants to go further: arrange it so that people pay for most normal medical expenses out of their own pockets. Cato would gradually increase Medicare's deductibles and copayments--currently $716 for the first 60 days of a hospital stay, and $100 a year plus 20% of doctors' bills...
...liberal. Really. Truly. Actually, I'm not exactly sure what I am, politically speaking. I usually choose the wishy-washy term "moderate," although I once called myself a "civil libertarian conservative" when forced to give a definitive answer. (Not 100 percent accurate, though...
Smoking is not a right. If the founders of this nation had guaranteed an absolute right to smoke, they would have meant it as the same shameless sop to tobacco producers that similar proposals represent today. If people want to make the libertarian argument that consuming cigarettes wherever, whenever and however they please is a form of self-expression essential to their personhood, then it's time for them to get a new personhood. Anyone so addicted to nicotine that he or she can't stand to do without for the length of time it takes them to walk...
...Ross Perot in 1992 and at Reagan Democrats who Buchanan hopes will "cross over" to vote in Republican primaries and caucuses in closely contested states like Iowa, South Carolina and Georgia. Bay Buchanan admits that many of the economic nationalists her brother is courting are pro-choice or libertarian and "disagree with us on social policy." But she believes the shaky coalition will hold because both groups think Buchanan will fight for them...
...concern for its implications for society as a whole. In each case, the Court crippled the government's ability to fairly structure access to forums, such as public streets and political campaigns, which it has rightfully regulated for years. And in each case, the interlocking structure of ostensibly conflicting libertarian and authoritarian rhetoric becomes increasingly clear...