To defeat government-controlled medicine, repudiate morality of need
December 30th, 2009 | by Brian Schwartz |Opponents of the Democrats’ health care “reform” proposals have said the new legislation would lead to higher costs, lower quality, and less access. But with the passing of HR 3692 (House) and HR 3950 (Senate) looks like the Democrats will have their way. Why? In the Investor’s Business Daily, Yaron Brook and Dan Watkins of the Ayn Rand Institute suggest an answer:
The reason we continue to move toward socialized medicine is that everyone — including the opponents of socialized medicine — grants its basic moral premise: that need generates an entitlement.
So long as that principle goes unchallenged, government intervention in medicine will continue growing, as each new pressure group asserts its need and lobbies for its entitlement, until finally the government takes responsibility for fulfilling everyone’s medical needs by socializing the health care system outright.
Read the whole article at IBD: Memo To Foes Of Health Reform: Repudiate The Morality Of Need.
tags: Ayn Rand, charity, persuasion, right to health care
