Health

In 1918, the Soviet Union became the first country to promise universal “cradle-to-grave” healthcare coverage, to be accomplished throu

On the other hand, a social order weakens these forces when it promises that if the individual's work is hindered by illness or the effects of a trauma, he shall live without work or with little work and suffer no very noticeable reduction in his income.

Only these four steps, although drastic, will restore a fully free market in medical provision.

The actual solution to the problem of runaway medical costs lies in the precise opposite of the direction chosen by the Clinton plan.

Recorded at Mises University 2009.

In the UK as well — thanks to nationalization, price controls, and government rationing of healthcare — thousands of people die needlessly every year because of shortages of kidney dialysis machines, pediatric intensive care units, pacemakers, and even x-ray machines. This is America's future, if "ObamaCare" becomes a reality.

Nowhere in this document or in successive drafts by Mason and Thomas Jefferson do we read words that could lead the reader to conclude that the federal government ought to care for its citizens or that we ought to look out for one another or that a central government ought to violate our individual natural rights to freedom, independence, and property to achieve the absurdity of mandatory equal access, equal price, equal quantity, and equal quality of health care for all.

The whole idea is just plain dumb, not to mention incredibly ill-timed.

From Part II of Defending the Undefendable, “Medical.” Read by Jeff Riggenbach.

From Part II of Defending the Undefendable, “Medical.” Read by Jeff Riggenbach.