[at-l] Really OT: Gov ain't good or bad

[jbryankramer@msn.com (J Bryan Kramer)]

What is your secret solution Weary? Canada, England and Europe demonstrate
that government control of the health care system costs a lot and does
little. Look at this Objectivist quote:

"You are entitled to something, the politicians say, simply because it
exists and you want or need it -- period.  You are entitled to be given
it by the government.  Where does the government get it from?  What does
the government have to do to private citizens -- to their individual
rights -- to their *real* rights -- in order to carry out the promise of
showering free services on the people?

The answers are obvious.  The newfangled rights wipe out real rights
-- and turn the people who actually create the goods and services
involved into servants of the state.  The Russians tried this exact
system for many decades.  Unfortunately, we have not learned from their
experience.  Yet the meaning of socialism (this is the right name for
Clinton's medical plan) is clearly evident in any field at all -- you
don't need to think of health care as a special case; it is just as
apparent if the government were to proclaim a universal right to food,
or to a vacation, or to a haircut.  I mean: a right in the new sense:
not that you are free to earn these things by your own effort and trade,
but that you have a moral claim to be given these things free of charge,
with no action on your part, simply as handouts from a benevolent
government"

Leonard Peikoff


"Si vis pacem para bellum"

> >...Bosh! Just about everyone who has a good stable job is
> covered by health
> >insurance, ... It is illegal for a hospital to turn anyone away in this
> >country. You are just playing liberal word games." thinks Bryan.
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> I'm not going to reply to much of the conservative mantra Bryan
> has provided us.
> But it's all about on a par with his thinking that because "It is
> illegal for a
> hospital to turn anyone away in this country." that equates to
> good health care.
> Good health care requires a continuing relationship with a
> competent family
> physician.
>
> Health insurance once protected most middle class Americans. Coverage is
> steadily decreasing. Every year fewer Americans have health
> insurance and those
> that still do find it pays less and less of their medical bills.
>
> To  claim otherwise is simply "playing conservative word games."
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> Weary
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