I do not plan to provide lengthy
commentary on last week’s Supreme ruling on the constitutionality of the
healthcare act. Many other folks with whom I agree have spoken on the subject.
However I will make a prediction: five years from now our situation with
healthcare will be no better, if not worse, than it is today. And that will
spur further calls for even more government intervention into the healthcare
sector to "fix" the problems. This despite the fact that government
has been involved in healthcare for at least 100 years in a series of actions,
each of which has caused even further disruptions.
The first link from the Ludwig von
Mises Institute provides an extensive list of links to various articles and
studies on the effect of government's role on healthcare and how will we have
now is not anywhere close to a free market in healthcare.
The first link in the list is an
article by Murray Rothbard summarizes the history of the government’s
intervention in healthcare since around 1910. http://mises.org/daily/6099/Government-Medical-Insurance
The Heritage Foundation collection
of pictures and charts captures the key features of Obamacare. Http://www.heritage.org/research/projects/obamacare/obamacare-in-pictures
Robert Bidinotto identifies the
collectivist premises that support the Supreme Court ruling and provides a link
to his analysis of why conservatives continually lose the moral battle in these
battles against the left. I strongly recommend reading both the article on his
blog as well as the link to his article on “Up From Conservatism. http://bidinotto.blogspot.com/2012/06/us-constitution-rip.html
Meanwhile neo-neocon provides some
interesting thoughts.
She also links to this analysis by
Andrew C. McCarthy. http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/06/28/obamacare-ruling-pure-fraud-and-no-due-process/?singlepage=true
And finally for a counter to the
moral argument Obamacare proponents unleash on anyone who dares to oppose their
“noble” cause check out Dr. Paul Hsieh’s article. http://pjmedia.com/blog/can-the-moral-narrative-of-obamacare-be-defeated/
The only way Americans can protect their long-term access
to quality medical care is by demanding that the government respect their
freedom and individual rights. Any system of “universal” health care
necessarily requires a bureaucracy to control who can receive what services and
when — if only to control costs. The medical rationing in Canada and the UK are
typical results. In these countries, far from being a “right,” health care becomes just another
privilege to be dispensed at the discretion of the bureaucrats.
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