Sunday, December 12, 2010

The Avastin Travesty

At today's PajamasMedia, Thomas Bowden of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights discusses "The Avastin Travesty".

In particular he describes why the flawed view of a "right" to health care leads to insoluble problems of rationing and cost control in this Pajamas Media piece. The collectivist approach to health policy necessarily harms individual patients in the end. Read the full text.

(For more on this topic, see my related PajamasMedia piece, "Avastin and Your Life".)