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Socialized Medicine Comes to Vermont

POST by Rituparna Basu | View All Posts April 15, 2014

At Vox.com, Sarah Kliff documents efforts in Vermont to socialize the financing of medical care in the state. The relevant legislation was signed into law in 2011, and if the state government is able to stick to its own schedule, starting in 2017, the government will be the sole payer for most medical services in Vermont (this kind of socialized medicine is called “single payer”).

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Rituparna Basu on The Disease Killing Canadian Health Care

POST by Carl Svanberg | View All Posts March 14, 2014

Last week Rituparna Basu gave a talk, sponsored by the Toronto Objectivist Committee and the Freedom Party of Ontario, at the University of Toronto in Canada, on "The Disease Killing Canadian Health Care.”

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What Americans can learn from the flawed battle against socialized medicine in Canada

POST by Rituparna Basu | View All Posts April 25, 2013

In my recent interview with Sally Pipes about Canadian health care, we discussed how Canada succumbed to socialized medicine. According to Ms. Pipes, calls for government-provided health care began in the province of Saskatchewan in the 1940s.

Government And Business

Do Canadians have it better? A conversation on the future of American health care [podcast episode #03]

POST by Rituparna Basu | View All Posts April 05, 2013

Comparing Canadian and American health care in the light of Ms. Pipes' first-hand knowledge of the Canadian system.

Further Reading

Ayn Rand | 1957

For the New Intellectual

The Moral Meaning of Capitalism

An industrialist who works for nothing but his own profit guiltlessly proclaims his refusal to be sacrificed for the “public good.”

Ayn Rand | 1961

The Virtue of Selfishness

The Objectivist Ethics

What is morality? Why does man need it? — and how the answers to these questions give rise to an ethics of rational self-interest.

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