2.9 Health Care

2.9 Health Care

We favor restoring and reviving a free market health care system. We recognize the freedom of individuals to determine the level of health insurance they want, the level of health care they want, the care providers they want, the medicines and treatments they will use and all other aspects of their medical care, including end-of-life decisions.

As of late the country has allowed itself to be confused by rhetoric from the left. The lie from the left is that people have a right to health care. This is sheer sophistry. Think of the other rights, the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, the right to defend yourself and the right to be safe from unreasonable searches. All of these things are limits on what the government can do to you, not for you. None of them cost anyone else any money.

The perpetrate the lie that we have a right to health care is to say that someone else owes health care costs to those who cannot afford it.

I am not surprised that this grand lie, told in smooth words by politicians hoping to bribe your vote away from you with promises of things they cannot honestly deliver, has been detected and rejected by the Libertarian Party. I stand with them.

Their are those who say that "it is too expensive" and some respond with "If the government did not take so much money from you in the first place we could all afford it", but those are smoke screen arguments. The simple truth is that inequality is a state of being, and the government cannot ever erase that. Some people can afford excellent care, others cannot. Sometimes those who cannot are put in that position by circumstances outside their control. None of these things equates to an obligation on the part of the rest of society to pay for the care of another.