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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.

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Is Healthcare a Right?

Category: Healthcare
Posted on: March 25, 2008 12:50 PM, by NotoriousLTP

You be the judge. Over at Justice Talking, Russell Roberts from Cafe Hayek debates Dr. Quentin Young of Physicians for a National Health Program.

The mp3 is here.

Hat-tip: Cafe Hayek

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Is providing health care a right? Is silently standing by and watching someone kill somebody else, without going and getting help, a wrong? We should be past this point as a society! Instead, we are still arguing the meaning of words like "right", simply to let us sleep peacefully at night after we've effectively told those around us "F*** you".

Posted by: Andrea | March 26, 2008 3:21 PM