OK, SOMEONE NEEDS TO ASK BACHMANN ABOUT VON MISES

In an interview in the WSJ by Stephen Moore, Bachmann made this statement:

"And [Ludwig] von Mises. I love von Mises," getting excited and rattling off some of his classics like "Human Action" and "Bureaucracy." "When I go on vacation and I lay on the beach, I bring von Mises."

I've done a little research on von Mises and these remarks from his SOCIALISM: An Economic and Sociological Analysis are one of the reasons he is reprehensible:

The destructionist aspect of accident and health insurance lies above all in the fact that such institutions promote accidents and illness, hinder recovery, and veryoften create, or at any rate intensify and 'lengthen, the functional disorders which follow illness or accident.

Insurance against diseases breeds disease.

By weakening or completely destroying the will to be well and able to work, social insurance creates illness and inability to work; it produces the habit of complaining which is in itself a neurosis — and neuroses of other kinds. In short, it is an institution which tends to encourage disease, not to say accidents, and to intensify considerably the physical and psychic results of accidents and illnesses. As a social institution it makes a people sick bodily and mentally or at least helps to multiply, lengthen, and intensify disease.