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
themoralapproach 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
thepracticalapproach 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.
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.
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"Our Collectivist Candidates,"WSJ. David Boaz challenges the claims
by both John McCain and Barack Obama that persons should commit themselves to
higher causes.