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In response to the following comment from this story on Cafe Hayek by commenter Thomas M. Hermann:

I think you are expressing the biggest problem with the entire debate. It was framed in terms of a comprehensive overhaul or maintaining the status quo that everyone agreed was not acceptable. I blame the Republicans for letting the debate get framed this way.

What the opposition to ObamaCare failed to do was organize an incrementally applied set of reforms that would promote consumer driver health care. Granted, there were various ideas for promoting consumer driven health care thrown against the wall to see what would stick, but nothing coherent and coordinated.

So, the meta-question: Is it possible for those of us that advocate emergent order to centrally plan to counter the central planners and facilitate the conditions for emergent order to occur?

Kind of a contradiction in purpose, isn’t it? Explains to me why we find ourselves in this position, though. Maybe we should double down on emergent order and have faith that the central planners will collapse under their own weight. I’m not sure I’m ready to clean up the resulting mess, though.

Ugh.

Kind of a contradiction in purpose, isn’t it? Explains to me why we find ourselves in this position, though. Maybe we should double down on emergent order and have faith that the central planners will collapse under their own weight. I’m not sure I’m ready to clean up the resulting mess, though.”

That is exactly the conundrum that I ponder quite often. Do I just wait until the socialist system collapses under its own weight, or do I take an active, but hugely underrepresented view of trying to restore and go beyond what the founders of the U.S. setup? This is why I believe that a democratic republic is still a flawed system of government. It will never remain small forever. A great revolution in political thought is necessary to come up with a very bare-bones system (or systems that compete) that protects property rights and nothing more. I don’t have much faith that this will ever happen however because those who “lead” become increasingly more arrogant in their obtained knowledge that this time, humanity can be cajoled into a more respectable version.

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This is a much watch. It’s common sense and to the point. Everyone should be able to see and understand what John and his guests say are true.

Stossel on health insurance

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