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The only solution to America's health-care crisis is to end, not reform, governmental intervention into economic activity. What would this entail? A way of life in which people would be free:
to do whatever they want, so long as their conduct is peaceful and does not intrude, in some direct way, on the rights of others to do the same;
to engage in any economic activity without political permission or restriction;
to enter into mutually beneficial exchanges with others;
to accumulate unlimited amounts of wealth;
to choose for themselves what to do with their own money-save, spend, donate, invest, or whatever.
Generally, the solution to America's social woes lies in ending, not reforming, its welfare-state, regulated-economy way of life. Specifically, the solution to America's health-care crisis entails the elimination of income taxation, licensing laws, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Income taxation
What is the relationship of income taxation to the health-care crisis? A major part of the problem is that ...
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For over one hundred years, the American people said no to governmental intervention into health care. Americans did not permit their respective states to license physicians and other health-care providers. They did not permit government to provide health care to the poor and needy. No one was required to purchase health insurance. The result of this unusual way of life was the most advanced medical system in history .
The real question is, "Why?" Why did five or six generations of Americans say no to such governmental schemes and controls as licensing, Medicare, Medicaid, and compulsory health insurance?
President Clinton and his wife Hillary would have us believe that the reason is that Americans simply had not yet invented or discovered these devices. The Clintons' claim that governmental control over people's health, and political redistribution of their wealth, are brand-new, 21st-century concepts whose time has come. And, unfortunately, most Americans, having received ...
Nearly every reform proposal offered to fix "the health-care crisis" calls for increased governmental control of medicine. These proposals are the logical result of the belief that there is a "right" to medical care.
But there is no such right. Rights, properly understood, do not include an entitlement to the services of others.
Recall the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson referred to a right to the pursuit of happiness, not an entitlement to happiness. People possess a right to be left to guide their lives in the manner they choose, so long as they do not impose by force their will on others. Interactions with others must be voluntary.
The opposing view, so prevalent in America today, is that human beings are entitled, by right, to certain goods and services and, thus, that others are required to provide them. Advocates of this view argue that people have a right to such things as food, shelter, clothing, education and, now, health ...
