Ah, I see libertarians drive on roads so they are all hypocrites & stuff, lets just disregard the fact that Hayek paid into SS for many years and that Hayek himself never said he was against SS or Medicaid or anything like that.

As for Charles Koch, he isn't even a libertarian......

The austrian economy in the 70ies was pretty much everything that Hayek stood against. Yet he didn't want to leave for free market paradise...

Every economy in the 70ies was pretty much everything that Hayek stood against.

I few points of note that need to be made about that article.

I feel it is unjust to condemn Koch for his enticement of social security covering the cost of Hayek's medical needs.

Hayek paid money into the system, and as such, was clearly entitled to get his money back. Koch was absolutely justified in telling Hayek about benefits he was entitled to, even if Koch disagreed with the program itself. Libertarians have always held that the people who paid into social security are absolutely entitled to getting their money back.

Consider that Hayek may not have been in such a tight financial situation had he elected not to pay into social security during his tenure. Thus, he may have been able to afford private insurance on his own had he not paid into social security earlier in his career.

Also consider the distortions on the insurance market that the creation of medicare caused. The introduction of socialized medical insurance drives up healthcare costs above what a free market would price them at. Private insurance has to compensate for the cost inflation by increasing premiums. In other words, in the absence of medicare and social security, private health insurance premiums would be lower. Thus Hayek may have been able to afford private health insurance on his own had those programs not distorted the market. We can see quite clearly by Hayek and Koch's writings that this is precisely why they argued against socialized health care.

a real socialist hilarious there is no such thing when its all said

and done no matter what economic or political philosophy one subscribes to

in the end the only one who matters is yourself its called self preservation.

and please stop using the term "Free market" we dont have it in fact never think we did a free market exists without the intervention of goverment.

so please.

Don't discount that Austria was his home. I'm pretty disappointed with America right now, but leaving, even if I had the money and the means, is out of the question.

/TOA