“Americans have a curious notion: Everything that’s good should be a right, and everything that’s bad should be a crime. The notion is probably more appropriate to a three-year-old’s worldview than the running of a civilization. A three-year-old has parents to help him discover life’s complexities. We grown-ups have the government, that ultimate definer, guarantor, provider, and enforcer of rights and crimes. The problem comes when the government, in order to secure us more rights, keeps coming up with more crimes. … Now healthcare consumes nearly one-sixth of our gross domestic product, and if you believe nearly everybody to the left of Dr. Ron Paul, it’s either already a right or should be — albeit a right provided by a government that seems to equate ever-tighter regulation and prosecution of doctors and other providers with the efficient providing of that right.” (01/01/08)