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Health Care Is Not A Right
The battle against socialized medicine depends on the doctors speaking out against it–not only on practical grounds, but, first of all, on moral grounds.
Universal Health Care Freedom on the Fourth of July
It is precisely because our health care is so important to each of us that we need to be especially careful to preserve and protect the rights of physicians and other health care providers.
A Brief History of HSAs
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) were approved by Congress in 2003—part of the largest expansion of government intervention in medicine in 40 years—and became law in January 2004. HSAs were preceded by Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs), or Archer MSAs (named after...
Medical Savings Accounts: The Future of Health Care Financing
The Medical Savings Account…is the best option available today for returning control, responsibility and freedom of choice to the individual and will thereby preserve and advance quality medical care.
Desocializing American Medicine
Despite pockets of vitality, American healthcare is sick. Yet we have been offered different variations of more socialized medicine as the only cure. This event offers a radical and new cure: desocializing American medicine.
50 Common Fallacies About American Health Care
Virtually all discussion of health care policy today avoids explicit reference to underlying principles.
Giving You Health Care “Equally”
The government must take good medical care from those who have it and redistribute it to those who do not.
Individualism is the Political Foundation of Healthcare
Individualism remains the best tool to deny government the power to force us to buy health insurance in general or forbid the purchase of the kind of health care plan we prefer.
Universal Freedom: The Only Hope for Health Care
“Universal Health Care” is the increasing drumbeat of advocates who want Americans to place all responsibility for their health care in the hands of government.
Free Markets are Good Medicine
Those who prefer government management of medicine have a wider agenda: they hate the idea of a free market in medicine because they hate the idea of free markets in anything.
Reality Stands in the Way of Socialist Healthcare Fantasies
Ask every politician promising to take over your medical care what they are doing for the veterans now in their care, or for those veterans who have died while languishing on lists while waiting for it.
Something About Medical Care We Can Defend
The end of the “mandate” or tax to force individuals to enroll in ObamaCare will not restore the lost private insurance that President Obama falsely promised we could keep, but it has ended a gross injustice.