If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time...

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time...

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike...

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike...

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless...

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless...

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about...

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about...

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous,...

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous,...

Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with...

Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with...

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing...

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing...

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq...

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq...

After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is...

After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is...

If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: fair,...

If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: fair,...

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine,...

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine,...

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But...

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But...

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor....

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor....

In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they...

In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they...

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it...

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it...

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Happy Leap Day! I have an 84-year-old friend who is celebrating his 21st birthday today....

Happy Leap Day! I have an 84-year-old friend who is celebrating his 21st birthday today....