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A story in today's New York Times, about a new wave of legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act, includes the following description of a remarkably principled individual:
One plaintiff in the District of Columbia case, David Klemencic, the
sole owner of a carpet and flooring store in the town of Ellenboro,
W.Va., was also a plaintiff in the constitutional challenge to the
individual mandate. In an interview, Mr. Klemencic, who does not have
any employees, said he had deep, philosophical objections to any effort
by the government to require him to purchase insurance, and would refuse
to accept a subsidy even if eligible.
“I go to the doctor now, I go to the dentist now, I take my checkbook
and I pay for it,” he said. “If I’m forced into some sort of program
where it’s subsidized by the government, I won’t go see a doctor.”
About ten years ago, the satirical newspaper The Onion ran the following fictitious story:
Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department
CHEYENNE,
WY—After attempting to contain a living-room blaze started by a
cigarette, card-carrying Libertarian Trent Jacobs reluctantly called the
Cheyenne Fire Department Monday. "Although the community would do
better to rely on an efficient, free-market fire-fighting service, the
fact is that expensive, unnecessary public fire departments do exist,"
Jacobs said. "Also, my house was burning down." Jacobs did not offer to
pay firefighters for their service.
Here, reality has outpaced fantasy. Presumably, if Klemencic's house catches fire, he will resist any effort by the fire department to trespass on his property.
Posted
4:05 PM
by Andrew Koppelman [link]