The Real Right to Medical Care versus Socialized Medicine

Mises Institute ^ | 8/6/2009 | George Reisman

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This article originally appeared as a pamphlet published by The Jefferson School of Philosophy, Economics and Psychology 1994 during Hillary Care debate. Sections at link are :

1.The Medical Crisis and the Need for Radical Procapitalist Reform
2.The Right to Medical Care and the Causes of the Medical Crisis
a.The potential for a limitless rise in the price of medical services
b.The potential for a practically limitless increase in the quantity of medical care demanded
c.Irrational medical malpractice awards
d.Perverting technological progress into a source of higher costs rather than lower costs
e.The very high prices of many patented prescription drugs
f.Hospitals wasting money in the purchase of unneeded costly equipment
g.Below market Medicaid rates and cost shifting
h.Bureaucratic interference with medicine and the rise in administrative costs
3.The Clinton Plan
4.The Free-Market Solution
5.Toward a Free Market in Medical Care

ARTICLE LINK: The Real Right to Medical Care versus Socialized Medicine

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I'm amazed you'd think mises.org would print anything else.

Oh, I freely admitted I hadn't read the article prior to my first posting. (Is it really true that all the "cool" kids on FR don't read the articles? Someone told me that once ;)

I later read the article, and was pleased to find that the article was indeed typical of the school of thought of the Ludwig Von Mises I thought I knew.

You have the right to all the medical care you can buy from willing providers. Got any complaints with that?

Nope. The complaint I would have is that so very few people seem to view medical services in that same light.