Medary.com

He's one of America's most eminent economists and observers of American society. Here's what he has to say about the current health care stampede (btw the best word I've yet seen for this manufactured "crisis"):

It is not just a question of what the government will pay for. The logic of their collectivist thinking— and the actual practice in some other countries with government-controlled health care— is that you cannot even pay for some medical treatments with your own money, if the powers that be decide that "society" cannot let its resources be used that way, or that it would not be "social justice" for some people to have medical treatments that others cannot get, just because some people "happen to have money."

The medical care stampede is about much more than medical care, important as that is. It is part of a whole mindset of many on the left who have never reconciled themselves to an economic system in which how much people can withdraw from the resources of the nation depends on how much they have contributed to those resources.

Despite the cleverness of phrases about people who "happen to have money," very few people just happen to have money. Most people earned their money by supplying other people with goods or services that those people were willing to pay for.

Since it is their own money that they have earned, these people feel free to spend it to give their 80-year-old grandmother another year or two of life, or to pay for a hip replacement operation for their mom or dad, even If some medical "ethicist" might say that the resources of "society" would be better used to allow some 20-year-old to talk over his angst with a shrink.

Oh, sorry. Sowell is black, so he's obviously a race-traitor, Uncle Tom type, right? Because any opposition to the will of Obama is by definition racist, right? So there's no point in actually listening to what this black man says, right?