A Classical Liberal’s Response to Collectivism

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Two accomplices get arrested for a number of crimes. The police have enough information to assure they both get a two year sentence. But they think they could connect them to another, much bigger crime, so they make both criminals an offer. If one informs on the other, he’ll go free, while the other will [...]

Massachusetts & Making Laws

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To make a law, a bill must be passed by both the House and Senate and signed by the President. This is what we all learned from the School House Rock song, right? Well, it’s a little more complicated than that. Both chambers want their say in a bill. If the House writes and passes [...]

President Runs afoul of Actuarial Science

Health Insurance Debate

Insurance is a preventative measure taken against low probability, high impact risk. It operates on the principle that, while it is impossible to predict the costs of any individual person, it is very much possible for actuaries to predict the costs of a large number of people within a certain segment of the population. That [...]

On Healthcare Reform – Less Just Might Be More

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My compatriot Amanda and I were having breakfast this morning and somehow the topic of health care reform came up. I said was pretty apathetic about the whole thing, which she disapproved of and so we got the chance to discuss it. As a result, I now have a much more concrete concept of what [...]