Rand Paul's Personal Special Interest

Rand Paul's libertarianism stops where his pocketbook starts, or so reports the Wall Street Journal today.

Rand Paul's libertarianism stops where his pocketbook starts, or so reports the Wall Street Journal today:

Tea party favorite Rand Paul has rocketed to the lead ahead of Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary here on a resolute pledge to balance the federal budget and slash the size of government.

But on Thursday evening, the ophthalmologist from Bowling Green said there was one thing he would not cut: Medicare physician payments.

In fact, Paul — who says 50% of his patients are on Medicare — wants to end cuts to physician payments under a program now in place called the sustained growth rate, or SGR. “Physicians should be allowed to make a comfortable living.

I guess this is what the original Rand meant by the morality of selfishness.