Dr Sowell...
I came, I read, I came back, I read more...
You keep writing and I'll keep reading...
Thank you for sharing your conclusions with us.

He can add that 47 million people to the system without increasing the supply because they are already in the system they're just not paying premiums to the insurance companies. The hospitals who have been mandated to care for them have been doing alright too as they pass all the expenses on to those of us who pay our bills insurance or not. Did anybody think that the 47 million people without insurance were just faith healing which they are anxious to give up? Is there evidence that their outcomes are somehow worse than the rest of ours? If so why haven't we heard it blasted all over the MSM.
The reason that the insurance companies are not at these townhall meetings is because they too want the government to make citizens buy their...

I'd like to see the third side represented by or in the audience.
Donald Boudreaux said it perfectly in a letter he wrote to a Washington Radio Station WTOP:
"The “conservative/liberal” division – although thought of in America today as the two alternative, relevant “sides” of political opinion – is no such thing. If we talk seriously of two “sides,” a much more realistic division is between those persons with a fetish for centralized power and those persons who distrust such power.

Modern “liberals” long for Washington to design and control the economy in great detail. Modern conservatives look to government to engineer the polity’s moral tone and (with some notable exceptions, such as George Will) to deploy U.S....

What a great column, well said. Thanks...