Michael Gerson, one of the primary architects of Bush’s big-government “compassionate conservatism”, defends needle-exchange programmes for heroin addicts: They are also at the center of a controversy. Needle-exchange programs have always been politically controversial, with opponents arguing that they send a mixed moral message about drug use. The House of Representatives recently passed an amendment [...]

Peter Singer has an article in the New York Times Magazine, arguing that healthcare should be rationed in order to keep costs down. Peter Suderman at Reason Magazine disagrees: [T]he QALY standard results in an essentially command-and-control approach to health-care distribution: Rather than let individual preferences and agreements work out prices and reach an equilibrium, [...]