Comments on: The "Nanny State" argument http://quoderat.megginson.com/2009/01/21/the-nanny-state-argument/ Open information and technology. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:40:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: david http://quoderat.megginson.com/2009/01/21/the-nanny-state-argument/#comment-2012 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:29:02 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=235#comment-2012 You are right, John — perhaps we all need a nanny sometimes.

]]> By: John Cowan http://quoderat.megginson.com/2009/01/21/the-nanny-state-argument/#comment-2011 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:39:24 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=235#comment-2011 A state that also provides healthcare has an incentive to pass nanny-state laws in order to protect itself from costs imposed on it by its citizens, as all three of your examples illustrate, albeit in decreasing order of aptness.

This is not a criticism of single-payer health care; I only wish I had it.

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