Principles for Reforming American Healthcare
The first step towards reforming American healthcare into a free market is to clearly articulate and consistently defend the moral and political principles of such a system.
Without clear moral and political principles we have no way of understanding the problems facing the American healthcare system, nor would we know what concrete steps would solve these problems and move us towards a free market in healthcare.
Read here about the foundations of AFCM’s principles for reforming American healthcare. Read here about AFCM’s principled and practical health policy solutions.
What follows is our featured work on the principles for reforming American healthcare into a free market, and our principled rejection of government control over healthcare.
‘Freeing the Medical Mind’
Gregory Salmieri, PhD, Senior Scholar of Philosophy, Salem Center for Public Policy, University of Texas at Austin.
“Health Care is not a Right”
Leonard Peikoff
The following was delivered under the auspices of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine at a Town Hall Meeting on Health Care in Costa Mesa, California, on December 11, 1993. For the article version of this talk, see here.
“Individual Rights and Health Care Reform”
John David Lewis, Ph.D.
Joint Defense of Freedom in American Medicine. September 19, 2009.
“Morality — Not Costs — As the Proper Basis for Health Care Reform”
John David Lewis, Ph.D.
Redeeming Reform: What Healthcare Reform Could Be and Ought to Be. May 10, 2010.
“Gaining the Moral Highground: Why Government Health Care Is Immoral”
Yaron Brook, Ph.D.
Doctors Town Hall Meeting. May 14, 2011.
“You Are Not Your Neighbor’s Health Care Provider”
Yaron Brook, Ph.D.
Redeeming Reform: What Healthcare Reform Could Be and Ought to Be. May 10, 2010.
“Capturing the Moral High Ground: Why Only Private Health Care Is Moral”
Yaron Brook, PhD.
Joint Defense of Freedom in American Medicine. September 19, 2009.
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