Libertarian Health Care

Health Care

In response to a Canadian readers question, I’ve written this post about the Libertarian view on health care.

There are three over-riding principles that govern our views:

  1. Health care is not a “right.” No one is entitled to health care. Like every other consumer product, you should pay for it yourself.
  2. Government has no business being in the health care business.
  3. The health care industry and the insurance industry should be de-regulated.  Regulation drives up costs.

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Not so Obvious

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It’s obvious to
everybody, isn’t it? The best way to improve society is to
create another government program. Harry Browne points out,

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programs don’t work! There are always unintended
consequences every time you pass a new law. Most of the time,
it’s a negative effect.

Because government is force, what it achieves is never as
natural, as lasting, as beneficial as what is achieved through
persuasion.

Oppose Terrorism

United States

Harry Browne has a new list of how-to’s for the war against terror. Too bad Harry
isn’t on Bush’s intelligence committee, they could learn something from Browne. The most important thing on the list is “Don’t be nice to the terrorists.”

There are so many good things on Harry’s list of do’s and dont’s I’m tempted to duplicate the whole thing. I’ll just provide a second link instead.

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Debate Protest

Libertarians

Remember way back in 2000 during the Presidential election campaign? They held a debate in Winston-Salem, NC at Wake Forest University. I was there protesting the exclusion of my candidate, The Libertarian Party‘s Harry Browne. I didn’t realize until today, that my first-hand account was published on the LPNC web site. (Look for my name about two-thirds of the way down the page.)

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