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Medical Regulation Piled on Medical Regulation

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President Clinton is continuing his piecemeal but relentless drive toward federal control of health care in the United States. Rebuffed by the American people and the Congress when he went for the Big Reform in 1993, he has decided that what he couldn't force us to swallow all at once he will have us accept crumb by crumb. Clinton recently proposed a benign-sounding "patient bill of rights." The proposal is designed to respond to Americans' increasing uneasiness with so called managed care, such as health maintenance organizations. In contrast to traditional fee for service, managed care entails myriad rules about which doctors a patient may see, what treatments are covered, and other matters. Under the "bill of rights" patients would be guaranteed certain information about doctors and health plans, waiting time for service would be minimized, complaints about service could be taken to independent review panels, ...

Compromise and Concealment-The Road to Defeat, Part 1

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Twenty years ago, I was rummaging through the public library in my hometown of Laredo, Texas, and I came across four books entitled Essays on Liberty that had been published many years before by The Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York. At the time, I was serving on the board of trustees for the local Legal Aid Society. I was also the local representative for the American Civil Liberties Union. The books consisted of hard-core, purist, uncompromising libertarian essays by such people as Leonard E. Read, Ludwig von Mises, Frank Chodorov, F.A. Harper, Henry Hazlitt, Dean Russell, Albert J. Nock, Paul Poirot, Frederic Bastiat, W.M Curtiss, Edmund A. Opitz, William Henry Chamberlin, Murray Rothbard, Bettina Bien, and many, many more. The essays absolutely bowled me over. I was thunderstruck by what I read. I felt as though someone ...

Heaven’s Gate and the Cult of the Socialistic Welfare State, Part 2

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Part 1 | Part 2 One of the primary characteristics of cults is the denial of reality. The ultimate example of this occurred in the Heaven's Gate cult: those cult members did not commit suicide; instead, they embarked on an exciting, intergalactic space adventure. In principle, denial of reality is no different for members in the cult of the socialistic welfare state. For example, a few months ago, when House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Vice President Al Gore visited China, they extolled the virtues of "economic freedom" in the United States. In their minds, the United States is "capitalist" while China is "socialist." Suppose you were to ask Gingrich and Gore about the following aspects of China's economic system: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public housing, public works, public spending, public schooling, public highways, trade restrictions, immigration controls, central banking, economic regulations, licensing restrictions, and drug laws. What would Gore and Gingrich say? They would respond, without any hesitation whatsover, with the following: ...