The government does not have some magic wand that can 'bring down the cost of health care.' It can buy a smaller quantity or lower quality of medical care, as other countries with government-run medical care do.

People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

People who know nothing about advertising, nothing about pharmaceuticals, and nothing about economics have been loudly proclaiming that the drug companies spend too much on advertising - and demanding that the government pass laws based on their ignorance.