Wisdom: More Friedman on Healthcare

Feb 122010

More of Friedman at the Mayo Clinic. While dealing with healthcare, the lessons apply to government in general.

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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition once did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. Will Rogers
One man with courage is a majority. Thomas Jefferson
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? Thomas Jefferson
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. Henry Hazlitt
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session Mark Twain
Men are unequal; individuals differ from one another. They differ because their prenatal as well as their postnatal history is never identical. Ludwig von Mises

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