I keep coming back to Hayek on this - because government-sponsored health insurance is not government-run healthcare. Maybe it's my British roots that make this so clear to me (if the British Tories proposed a universal health insurance scheme, with care provided by private doctors, nurses and hospitals, it would rightly be regarded as a major shift to the right.) Here's Hayek's discussion of why this is not heresy for libertarians and conservatives of the old school:]]>