On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, ken hanly wrote:
> In The Constitution of Liberty, Hayek argues against a "free"
> universal state health care system:
>
> http://www.qando.net/?p=3767
> In The Constitution of Liberty, Hayek argues against a "free" universal
> state health care system:
>
> http://www.qando.net/?p=3767
Great cite. Well that finishes that man bites dog story. It looks like Hayek essentially repented of his brief flash of insight in the Road to Serfdom (that free health care doesn't incentivize people to get meningitis) because it was ungenial to his prejudices. And 16 years later he threw everything at it he could, scattershot style, just like a contemporary conservative would.
I have only the most superficial acquaintance with Hayek, but my impression is that in _Road to Serfdom_ he came out and said he wasn't 100% behind laissez-faire. Perhaps that's why Mises called him a socialist?
Is the rest of this later, book _The Constitution of Liberty_, less famous but seemingly not less important to him, an attempt in general to reverse that position and toe the libertarian party line on adulating laissez-faire?
Michael