Health

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Melchior Palyi

Wherever the doctor is being paid by the authorities and not by the patients, the outcome of compulsion is a set of fees that does not cover the investment in expensive instruments. This has an additional effect that could scarcely have been unintended: It forces the patient into governmentally controlled dispensaries which can afford the investment — at the taxpayer's expense.

Melchior Palyi

"Governmentalizing, and thereby controlling through an appropriate bureaucratic apparatus, the providing of medical, accident, and old age care and of death (burial) benefits seemed an obvious way to put the reins on laissez-faire capitalism as well as on labor."

Douglas French

"There is no greater example of why it is morally incumbent on everyone to oppose all forms of government intervention in all times. That includes, especially, wars that socialize the economy."

"The notion of self-accountability is being eliminated by so-called 'progressives' who believe it unfair to struggle."

Jeffrey A. Tucker

You rarely know the prices of what you are getting.

Henry Richey

The taxation approach taken by Senate Democrats is a purely foolish method of funding regulations that are themselves horrible.

Henry Richey

The inevitable result will be the complete dissolution of the private health-insurance market.

Henry Richey

Given that the official House version of Obama’s healthcare plan, HR 3962, has now passed, a close examination of the effects of “Obamacare” on the labor market is important.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Mankind must stop tolerating this thing called the state, which presumes the right to force us to do what it wants us to do, rather than what we want to do.