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Legs Broken, Crutches Distributed
One of the benefits of Obamacare, apparently – as you’ll learn from this piece, if you can make it past “people like you and I” – is that it enables this:
Tufts Medical Center in Massachusetts – along with their physician group and a company which owns and operates two hospitals in the region – has acted on this provision of the law and received $88.5 million in federal funds to create the state’s first member owned and controlled health insurance plan.
This “first” claim is quite false, of course. Massachusetts, like most states in the u.s., once had many member-owned, member-controlled health-insurance plans – until the government drove them out of business. Now the government is apparently attempting to run a top-down simulation of what it formerly destroyed. One thinks of Marie Antoinette playing shepherdess.
Mystery Solved
Look how skinny Ryan’s copy of Atlas is! Now that explains a lot.
X Marks the Spot
I hope I do not evince an alarming degeneracy of character in saying that I would be sorry to meet Paul Marks without having a large cream pie handy.
Oldest Libertarian Think Tank Shoots Itself In the Brain
This issue featured articles by Kevin Carson, Charles Johnson, and Gary Chartier!
During his 15-year editorship of The Freeman, the Foundation for Economic Education’s flagship publication, Sheldon Richman made that magazine far and away the best it’s ever been, turning it from a frequent defender of economic privilege and cultural intolerance into a force for truly radical free-market thinking.
But as of the end of next month, Sheldon will no longer be editor. It’s the end of The Freeman’s golden age as far as I’m concerned.
Sheldon is “looking for a full-time editorial position with an online or paper publication.”
Trilogy
Jeff Tucker on anarchism (including some interesting observations on Mises vs. Hayek):
Jeff Tucker interviewed by Stefan Molyneux on Jeff’s new anarchy book:
Jeff Tucker interviewing Gary Chartier on Gary’s previous anarchy book: