Why Would Medicine Be Any Different?
Richard Salsman’s list of currently established government endeavors leads to a very important question for socialized-medicine advocates.
Considering the following, on what grounds could one suggest that government run health care would achieve any better results?
- Money – The Federal Reserve, which perpetually debases our money, manipulates interest rates, and instigates systemic risk
- Pensions – he Social Security Administration, the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. – which are insolvent by multi-trillions of dollars
- Schooling – the “public” (government) schools are a mess, and generate mass illiteracy-innumeracy
- 1st Class Mail – the U.S. Post Office is badly run and a perpetual money-loser
- Passenger Trains – Amtrak is also badly run and always a money-loser
- Residential Mortgages – Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae and the FHA-HUD have lost trillions and have brought ruin to millions
There is no reasonable justification for suggesting they would.
* Any discourse considering the abundance of practical considerations which justify opposition to socialized medicine must not fail to mention that practicality, as such, is only of secondary importance. The primary and fundamental reason socialized medicine must be opposed is on the moral grounds that no individual has a right to any portion of the life of another, for any reason, at any time, in any place, nor for any purpose.
