Nicholas Sarwark
Nicholas Sarwark is Executive Director of the Libertarian Policy Institute. He served as Chair of the Libertarian National Committee from 2014 to 2020, a period of unprecedented growth. Over the last two decades, he has worked as a systems developer for a major non-profit, tried over 30 cases to a jury as a deputy public defender in Colorado, and managed the oldest independent car dealership and loan company in Phoenix. He founded Wedge Squared Strategies in 2019, a strategy, communications, and campaign consulting firm that helps individuals and organizations maximize their impact on the world. Licensed to practice law in Colorado and New Hampshire, he lives in Manchester, New Hampshire with his wife Valerie and their four children where they volunteer to build a better local community.
Well, since I’ve been running into it a lot lately.
Michael Moore’s new film.
Setting aside his typical careful selection of cases (wait time for elective/non-critical surgeries in Canada) or his poisoning the well strategy on CNN (attack the credentials, not the facts), I was fascinated by the movie itself.
[trimmed a bunch of rambling on libertarian philosophy – realised this would go on for a while]
Basically, I know economists look at things differently.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/books/chapters/0708-1st-land.html?ex=1185422400&en=5d4205fd09f9af6e&ei=5070
And what is good for the individual, is not always good for society, or even optimal for a fairly reasonably gambling individual.
Still, was wondering if anyone had properly examined all the consequences of eliminating the market from US healthcare (and yes, I know the current system is far from an open market).
I know it is speculation, and working from other cases is rough, but that’s what economists do, right?
Would be nice to total up the costs, this much in medical education, this much in lost freedoms, this much gained in quality of life, this much lost in research…
BTW, doesn’t this defeat the purpose?
He offers to create a personalised podcast, you open up the creation of the personalised podcast to the world?
🙂
Well, the podcast will still be personalized to the question I submit. It’s just that I value the input of my readers in determining what the best question would be.