Take the moral high ground in health care debate
October 19th, 2009 | by Brian Schwartz |Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute makes the case to “capturing the moral high ground” in the health care debate: Why Only Private Health Care is Moral. He gave this talk at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on September 19, 2009.
Part 1:
My notes on part 1: Brook discusses how those in favor of more political controls are not primarily interested in quality medicine, but in egalitarianism and Utopian equality. It’s morally OK that some drive better cars than others, but not that they have access to better care. Egalitarianism does not sell in this U.S. So politicians sell the “morality of need.” Need is a claim on wealth. If we don’t give to the needy on our own, then government can force us to be “good.”
Part 2:
Notes on Part 2: Morality of need vs. morality of self-interest, pursuing own happiness. Republicans won’t take moral stand. Sacrifice as the standard of virtue. No way to fight socialized medicine if we hold need as a claim on wealth (”morality of need”), source of virtue. Virtue of profit vs. vilifying profit.
Part 3:
(Via FIRM)
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