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Added line is this color Deleted line is this color <h3>Health Insurance</h3> <ul> <li><a href= "http://www.westandfirm.org/blog/2008/05/faq-on-free-market-health-insurance.html"> FAQ on Free Market Health Insurance</a>, by Paul Hsieh, MD (May 2008)</li> <li><a href= "http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2007-winter/moral-vs-universal-health-care.asp"> "Moral Health Care" vs. “Universal Health Care"</a>, by Lin Zinser and Paul Hsieh (<em>The Objective Standard</em>, 2008)</li> <li style="list-style: none"> <ul> <li> <p>The only moral and practical solution to this now-behemoth problem is to acknowledge that government intervention in health care and in health insurance is wrong, and to start in earnest to eliminate all such interference. This is -the <em>moral</em> approach to solving the problem because it recognizes that -the producers of health care goods and services have an inalienable right to +the<em>moral</em>approach to solving the problem because it recognizes that the +producers of health care goods and services have an inalienable right to dispose of the fruits of their thought and labor as they see fit, seeking their -best interests through free trade in the marketplace. And it is the -<em>practical</em> approach to solving the problem because it will lead to +best interests through free trade in the marketplace. And it is +the<em>practical</em>approach to solving the problem because it will lead to high-quality medical care at the prices that make such care possible—the prices on which providers and patients voluntarily agree.</p> +</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<p>"<a href="http://www.westandfirm.org/Peikoff-01.html">Health Care is Not a +Right</a>," by Leonard Peikoff (1993), updated with permission by Lin Zinser +(2007)</p> +</li> +<li style="list-style: none"> +<ul> +<li> +<p>Observe that all legitimate rights have one thing in common: they are rights +to action, not to rewards from other people. The American rights impose no +obligations on other people, merely the negative obligation to leave you alone. +The system guarantees you the chance to work for what you want--not to be given +it without effort by somebody else.</p> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <h3>Organizations</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.westandfirm.org/index.html">Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine</a> (FIRM)</li> </ul> <p> </p> <h3>Individualism</h3> <ul> <li>(<strong><font color="#FF0000"><em><a href= "http://reimbursement.atwiki.com/file/open/85/David%20Boaz%20-%20WSJ%20-%20Our%20Collectivist%20Candidates%20%28May%2028%2C%202008%29.pdf">uploaded</a></em></font></strong>) "Our Collectivist Candidates,"<em>WSJ</em>. David Boaz challenges the claims by both John McCain and Barack Obama that persons should commit themselves to higher causes.</li> </ul> |