By Jonathan Chait at New York magazine.
"This hostility to empiricism has defined the conservative approach to health care. How else could a concept developed by a conservative think tank, implemented by a Republican governor, and largely uncontroversial within the conservative world suddenly become the death of freedom? Because the conservative movements's understanding of concepts like "freedom" is a hazy ideological abstraction, unmoored from factual grounding, that can attach itself to nearly any partisan position. If you're uninterested in the details...then your disposition toward one idea can easily lurch from mildly supportive to hysterically in opposition..." continue to article.
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