Tag Archives: The Right to Health Care

Theodore Dalrymple on rights and moral imagination

by Aschwin de Wolf Posted on July 28, 2009

Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels) makes the following observation: When the supposed right to health care is widely recognized, as in the United Kingdom, it tends to reduce moral imagination. Whenever I deny the existence … Continue reading →

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Health care as a right?

by Aschwin de Wolf Posted on July 28, 2009

To understand the background of the recent debates on health care it is instructive to look at how this issue  is being approached in “progressive” states like Oregon. Last year a Constitutional Amendment was discussed  which would declare access to … Continue reading →

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