The Mountain XPress reports on a Dec. 15 health care debate in Asheville among nine people with differing points of view, including JLF’s Director of Health Care Policy, Katherine Restrepo. Here’s how the story featured Katherine.

Katherine Restrepo, health care policy expert for the conservative Raleigh-based John Locke Foundation, worried about the social implications of health care as a right. “If someone claims to have a right, then they’re forcing someone else to provide that right for them,” she said, “which infringes upon our freedoms as Americans.” She suggested that voluntary markets can provide more access to care for more people.

And then there’s this:

Ilze Greever, captain of Asheville High/SILSA’s speech and debate team, kept an eye on the candidates’ rhetorical performances. “I think it came off really well,” she said. “Lots of different perspectives on a really important issue.”

The speech and debate team hosts these community forums semiannually on a topic of local political interest. Past renditions have taken on disenfranchisement of African-Americans and fracking in North Carolina.

In the end, Greever considered Restrepo and Fields to be the night’s winners, “just because I liked how they brought evidence and thorough analysis, which is something we really focus on as debaters.”

Way to go, Katherine. That’s the mark of the John Locke Foundation: evidence and thorough analysis.