Ivan Hu

“No one likes compulsion, perhaps especially Americans, who hate the idea that healthcare should be rationed, although apparently not when the rationing is done by money, excluding those who cannot pay.”
― Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

“At a time when the American military was bombing the opium supply in Helmand province in Af­ghan­i­stan, Johnson & Johnson was legally growing the raw material for the nation’s opioid supply in Tasmania.”
― Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

“Psychiatrists say unrealistic expectations lead to depression, but why else are we alive if not to dream? Every expectation is unrealistic until it is made a spectacular reality through inspiration, hard work, and persistence.”
― Stewart Stafford

“America currently has the worst of both worlds, where government interference, instead of controlling costs, creates opportunities for rent-seeking that inflate costs. It is not possible for an unregulated market to provide a socially acceptable degree of coverage; as Kenneth Arrow noted long ago, “The laissez-faire solution for medicine is intolerable.”
― Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism