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Cherry Garcia: Peter Huber's Thoughts on Socialized Medicine

October 15, 2007 01:02 PM

Peter Huber is one of my favorite writers and thinkers. I know him only from a few conversations and several of his books, Galileo's Revenge, and Hard Green. He is always fresh and analytical, being an MIT engineer and head of his own law firm.

In this Cherry Garcia and the End of Socialized Medicine he shows how complex modern "disease" is and how a one-size-fits-all socialized medical system of the kind being proposed by various politicians, would fail. Politicians are not thinkers, nor should we let them be social engineers. They see the world in an odd way. Better, they see an odd world that bears little resemblance to the world we live in.

How can socialized medicine cure people when it is individual biochemistry driven by a personal mixture of genes, diet, activity and disastrous living habits?

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