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Rothbard Informing the Health Care Debate

Rothbard Informing the Health Care Debate
From an Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) press release:
TUCSON, Ariz., June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The late libertarian economist Murray Rothbard wrote that laws are generally passed to grant some privilege to those who advocate them. So we must always ask “Who benefits?” writes G. Keith Smith, M.D., founder of Surgery Center of Oklahoma (www.surgerycenterok.com), in the summer 2012 issue of theJournal of American Physicians and Surgeonshttp://www.jpands.org/vol17no2/smith.pdf. Smith believes that the main supporters of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or “ObamaCare”) have already achieved their main objectives, and so may be indifferent to whether the U.S. Supreme Court overturns it.
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