Dr. Richard Bruch, orthopedic surgeon and past president of the N.C. Medical Society, supports reform of North Carolina’s certificate-of-need law. He says powerful interests help block helpful reforms. Bruch offered these comments during an Oct. 13, 2014, speech for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.
Opinion
Politics should be less important
It might sound odd to hear this from someone who’s been writing a syndicated column on politics for nearly four decades, but politics has become vastly more important in our lives than it should be. Virtually every decision we make in our ostensibly free society is now subject to review, refinement, and reversal by some...