Professor John Hasnas asserts in his intriguing January 2009 blog post "What It Feels Like to Be a Libertarian" that life as a libertarian entails "living with an almost unendurable level of frustration."  Maybe.  I think it depends on the worldview of the libertarian.

Libertarians can broadly be divided into the two following groups: activists and non-activists.  Activist libertarians generally believe the state can be changed from within, liberty can be achieved in their lifetime, and non-libertarians can be easily persuaded of the merits of liberty if they are only exposed to the basic libertarian arguments.  Non-activist libertarians generally believe the state cannot be changed from within, liberty will not be achieved in their lifetime, and non-libertarians are rarely persuaded of the merits of liberty even when they are exposed to the basic libertarian arguments.

It is simple to intuit from my description of the world-views of the 2 main groups of libertarians that each group typically experiences different levels of frustration.  Activist libertarians generally experience a high level of frustration because their world-view is false.  Non-activist libertarians experience a low level of frustration because their world-view is true.

Until recently I was an activist libertarian and EXTREMELY frustrated.  Now that I have accepted reality and become a non-activist libertarian my frustration level has minimized and I am much happier and much more productive as a libertarian.  I recommend a similar conversion for all activist libertarians.

The topic of the second chapter of Goodman's Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around the World is equality.  Utilizing a bevy of statistics the authors refute the statist myth that single-payer national health care systems provide equal access to health care to all citizens "covered" by the systems.  I imagine medical socialists attack the accuracy and/or relevancy of the stats or assert that "reforms" can fix the problems.  The revolt against nature is ceaseless.  So is the LIBERTARIAN BIOETHICS BLOGger.