You First, Governor

Governor Big Hair is and always will be an embarrassment to Texas.

Today on C-Span, Senator Conrad (D-ND) pointed out the superior medical care found in European nations and that health insurance is employer provided except for those very poor or unemployed being covered by government. He also pointed out how much cheaper that medical care is compared to ours. It's interesting to note that these insurance organizations are non-profit. I was under the impression that most European governments completely paid for healthcare through taxation. Apparently not anymore. Cost is controlled by heavily regulating the insurance industry and allowing only non-profit health insurance “companies”. Something like your insurance “company” makes to much profit this fiscal year, next year they lower premiums. Not enough and the government allows them to raise premiums. Seems to work enough to keep the highest quality medical care available for everyone and keep costs down to about half our costs for premiums. Nobody losses their homes because of healthcare debt. In reality it is not government run healthcare, but government regulated health insurance, not free enterprise insurance.

Some more of Hayek's writings concerning healthcare, I think this gives a better picture of his thinking.
http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=5176

While there are some interesting critiques of Hayek ("The Iron Cage of Liberty" even has an intriguing title), most criticism of Hayek and anyone who refers to him are just contemporary silly analogues of the UK flirters with socialism around the 1940s, who called that book (one of many by Hayek) "Road to Reaction."

That is, 99-plus per cent of critics of those who refer to Hayek or even to Adam Smith aren't acting from a sound intellectual position. They just don't like dissent from lefty orthodoxy.