EDUCATION: Walter Williams was a rock star

Friday, April 4, 2025

https://jeffjacoby.com/28453/84-years-of-not-suffering-fools

84 years of not suffering fools
by Jeff Jacoby  — December 7, 2020

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Walter E. Williams taught economics to university students for 47 years, the last 40 of them at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. He taught his class as usual last Tuesday, then died suddenly some hours later. His death did not go unnoticed — lengthy obituaries appeared in both the New York Times and the Washington Post — but the news ricocheted with particular velocity through the world of conservatives, libertarians, and free-market economists: To us, Walter Williams was a rock star.

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From How to Live in Peace (2017):

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The liberty-oriented solution to the school prayer issue is simple. We should acknowledge the fact that though there is public financing of primary and secondary education, it doesn’t follow that there should be public production of education. . . .

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I read Walter Williams as soon as I found out about him.  He led me to Thomas Soul.  Together they formed my opinions on Gooferment, Gooferment Skrules, politicians, and bureaucrats.

Clearly and concisely, they demolished the welfare / warfare state with its one-size fit all solutions.  Good thing the Gooferment doesn’t produce shoes.

Argh!

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GOVERNACIDE: Massachusetts has Canada like waiting lists

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

https://jeffjacoby.com/27413/the-12th-day-of-the-12th-month

Waiting for health care in Canada
Jeff Jacoby

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Thanks to tax preferences dating back two generations, patients have come to expect most medical treatment and procedures — even routine prescriptions — to be covered by health insurance. Consequently, insurers wield far more economic clout than patients do. Providers — doctors, hospitals, urgent care facilities — are forced to accommodate the demands of insurance companies, since it is they who pay the tab. When patients think someone else is paying most of their health care costs, they feel little pressure to learn what those costs actually are — and providers feel little pressure to compete on price or value. Add to all that the plethora of coverage mandates imposed by state and federal governments, and it is no wonder that health care pressures have grown intolerable. Many medical practices won’t take new patients. Result: people can’t get the care they want, or can’t get it from the providers they prefer, or can’t get it without having to hunker down for a long wait.

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Wonder how many people die while waiting or because of the wait?

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