The Conservative Philosophy Is Anti-Risk-Spreading

Good summary of a great new yorker article. I'm posting the link to the Healthy Blog summary instead of the link to the New Yorker because this is a great blog and you should read all the posts, including this one:

In the rest of the industrialized world, it is assumed that the more equally and widely the burdens of illness are shared, the better off the population as a whole is likely to be. The reason the United States has forty-five million people without coverage is that its health-care policy is in the hands of people who disagree, and who regard health insurance not as the solution but as the problem.