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Separating Charity and Health Care from the State
WEBSeparating Charity and Health Care from the State. by Jacob G. Hornberger. May 1, 2017. One of the most remarkable achievements of our American ancestors was enshrined in the First Amendment — the separation of church and state. Reflecting the notion that religious liberty was one of the natural, God-given rights to which Thomas …
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Healing the Health-Care System
WEBHISTORY CAN OFTEN yield insights into our dilemmas. Health care is no exception. The Founders of America envisioned a health-care system based on principles of the dignity and liberty of every person. They were: 1. A right to work. England’s system of guilds and licenses kept many people out of the healing arts. America would allow …
Healthcare Reform Is Not Healthcare Liberty
WEBLibertarians can argue until they are blue in the face against mandatory vaccines, vaccine passports, mask mandates, lockdowns, and other government healthcare measures to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic — and, now, its Delta variant — but one thing is for sure: Even if they succeed in their endeavors, it will not constitute healthcare …
To Cure Healthcare, We Need to Kill Government …
WEBRobert E. Wright is the (co)author or (co)editor of over two dozen major books, book series, and edited collections, including AIER’s The Best of Thomas Paine (2021) and Financial Exclusion (2019).He has also (co)authored numerous articles for important journals, including the American Economic Review, Business History Review, …
The Healthcare Road to Serfdom – The Future of Freedom …
WEBCOVID-19 hysteria has done more to embolden the power-mad than a massive terrorist attack. Once content to whisper among themselves about the danger of “too much freedom” (any amount, in the final analysis, being too much for them), they slither out of the shadows now to champion every new idea or policy that treats people like …
Weak Libertarian Solutions to America’s Healthcare Crisis
WEBPut 100 of the best libertarians in a room with 100 of the top healthcare experts in the country. Give them 200 of the best, fastest computers in the world. Leave them there for a month. Let them come up with their best public policy proposals for fixing America’s healthcare crisis.”. Adopt all their reform proposals, including their
Parallels Between Liberty and Health
WEBThere are interesting parallels between those in the libertarian movement and some people involved in the health industry. I’m referring to those who no longer pledge allegiance to formal Western medical traditions run by the AMA and Big Pharma through the federal government. The parallels arise naturally. Both of us are involved in …
Healthcare Freedom – The Future of Freedom Foundation
WEBThe sooner we separate healthcare and the state, the sooner our nation will be on the road toward liberty, health, peace, prosperity, and harmony. Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his
Functional Healthcare and Judicial Systems
WEBThe benefits of a free-market healthcare system and a functional judicial system are obvious: a healthier, more dynamic, prosperous, and harmonious society. It just takes thinking outside the statist box and replacing dead-end paradigms with a functional one. Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation.
Libertarianism, Birth Control, and Religious …
WEBIn a free society, that is, a libertarian society, using birth control would be an individual decision, and religious accommodations would be entirely a matter between employers and employees. Laurence M. Vance is a columnist and policy advisor for the Future of Freedom Foundation, an associated scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, …
Why Not Separate School and State
WEBGovernment “education” includes three forms of coercion: (1) compulsory attendance, (2) government dictated curricula, and (3) the forcible collection of the wherewithal to pay the enormous bill…. The results of force are bad enough as related to the pocket-book, but they are far worse as they affect the educational process. Force is precisely as inefficacious …
War and the State: The Legacy of Randolph Bourne
WEBApril 1, 2002. AS I POINTED OUT in last month’s Freedom Daily (“ War Is the Health of the State, ” March 2002), Randolph Bourne was an American intellectual during the Progressive era who found himself isolated as President Woodrow Wilson conspired to take the United States into World War I. He understood war to be illiberal by its nature
Liberals, Conservatives, and the Welfare State
WEBAccording to the Heritage Foundation’s latest edition of “ Federal Spending by the Numbers ,” total budget authority in fiscal year 2012 for America’s entitlement programs was $2.032 trillion. The breakdown is as follows: Social Security, $781.172 billion. Medicare, $499.284 billion. Medicaid and CHIP, $327.495 billion.
TGIF: The Economic Way of Thinking about Health Care
WEBI realize Mike Lupica is a sports columnist — and that Howard Cosell called sports “the toy department of life” — but maybe that’s what makes Lupica’s recent declaration about Obamacare all the more representative a reaction. Appearing on a morning cable news program, Lupica declared that “health insurance for all is a noble …
Socialism and Medicine, Part 1
WEBSocialism and Medicine, Part 1. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4. If the financial popularity of Michael Moore’s latest “documentary,” called Sicko, is an indication of popular sentiment in this country, then the United States seems to be ready for what once was called socialized medicine, but today is better known as “single-payer
The Folly of Healthcare Reform
WEBOne of the popular healthcare reforms advanced by conservatives is healthcare savings accounts. Conservatives maintain that this reform is the solution to the decades-long healthcare crisis. By having everyone deposit money into a healthcare savings account, much like people put their money into IRAs, the healthcare crisis, they …
Book Review: Drug War Heresies
WEBDrug War Heresies by Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001); 479 pages; $28.00. In the ongoing debate over drug policy, professors Robert MacCoun and Peter Reuter are betwixt and between. On the one hand, government officials have assailed their empirical data documenting prohibition’s …
Johnsoncare, Bushcare, Obamacare, and Trumpcare
WEBFebruary 16, 2024. EMAIL. Former president Donald Trump has vowed to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) with his own plan. Because “Obamacare is too expensive, and otherwise, not good healthcare,” he vowed: We don’t need Medicare, Bushcare, Obamacare, or Trumpcare. We need a free market in health care and health …
Healthcare Socialism Versus Healthcare Freedom
WEBJacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the …
Medicare and Medicaid Destroyed Healthcare
WEBIn a December 1 Washington Post article entitled “Yes, Americans are Feeling the Squeeze. It’s Coming from Health Care,” Post columnist Robert Samuelson points out, “In the early 1960s, before Medicare and Medicaid, which were enacted in 1965, health spending was about 2 percent of federal outlays. Now it is nearly one-third, at …
Is America’s Healthcare System Socialism or Not
WEBAs everyone knows, for decades America’s healthcare system has been characterized by never-ending and ever-growing chaos and crises, especially with respect to constantly soaring healthcare costs. That should give us a hint on whether America’s healthcare system is free enterprise or socialism. Moreover, no matter what healthcare …
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