Al Gore’s vow to “take on” the prescription drug industry will continue the decades-long hobbling of the American health care industry, said a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute.
Healthcare
Any mandatory and comprehensive plan will finish off quality medicine in this country–because it will finish off the medical profession. It will deliver doctors bound hands and feet to the mercies of the bureaucracy. The only hope–for the doctors, for their patients, for all of us–is for the doctors to assert a moral principle. I mean: to assert their own personal individual rights–their real rights in this issue–their right to their lives, their liberty, their property, their pursuit of happiness. The Declaration of Independence applies to the medical profession too. We must reject the idea that doctors are slaves destined to serve others at the behest of the state. – AYN RAND
“Humanitarian” Food and Medicine Bill for Cuba is Anything but Pro-Human
Fidel Castro’s use of food and medicine as weapons of control over the Cuban population is a tactic as old as the Revolution itself.
The Sanctity of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
The doctor-patient relationship is not merely eroding, it is dying.
Government Controlled Medicine: The Destruction of the Physician-Patient Relationship (Part 2)
One of the most tragic effects of state controlled health care is the phenomenomen of “brain drain.” No young bright individual, no dedicated physician who has spent years mercilessly studying and mastering his art wishes to be a slave to the government....
Government Controlled Medicine: The Destruction of the Physician-Patient Relationship (Part 1)
Approximately 2500 years ago Hippocrates, a physician-philosopher and genius from Greek antiquity, put into motion one of man’s greatest and noblest achievements-Western Medicine. The inheritors of Hippocrates’ rational Art-the physicians of today-are...
The Myth of Patient Safety
By demonizing the good name of health care professionals with unanswerable charges, the NAS is blaming alleged problems of the current system on a free market and commercial interests, and advancing the cause of a centralized, socialist health care system.
Health Care Quality Under Siege
AFCM’s advertisements and brochure begin with the phrase, “The crisis in American health care is not one of quality.” If a recent New York Times article (10/19) is true, this will soon change. “In a break from three decades of Medicare policy, the Clinton...
The American Health Care System’s Deadly Virus: Socialist Controls
America’s health care system ailments, such as skyrocketing costs and restrictions on the freedom to choose a doctor, are prevalently ascribed to our mixed economy’s capitalist aspects, while their alleged remedies lie in the economy’s other aspect:...
Health Care Is Not A Right
So long as people believe that socialized medicine is a noble plan, there is no way to fight it.
Graduated Tax for Medicare Is Immoral
The U.S. Congress has been considering a steep increase in Medicare taxes for higher-income people. A tax that has been flat since its inception in the 1960s is suddenly about to become a graduated tax. If the measure becomes law, the tax for higher-income earners...
MSAs: The Future of Medical Care Financing
I know that the MSA is the future for health care financing because it is the best option available today for returning control, responsibility and freedom of choice back to the individual, and thereby preserving and advancing quality medical care for individuals. By...
Attacking the Heart of Medicine
One vital fact was omitted in the news accounts about the success of Boris Yeltsin’s recent heart surgery: the failure of socialized medicine. And this fact underscores the question of whether America’s health-care policies are courting a similar failure....
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Milton Friedman on AFCM’s Goals
Let that sum be tax-exempt to the employee if deposited in a so called medisave account.
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