[alloysteel]

Health care as a service from another is indead a rationed service. Either by price, or by putting on a schedule relating to how much time may be alloted to each applicant.

Your own personal health is TOTALLY a personal responsibility. Observe known methods of hygiene, prepare and consume healthy foods, and arrange your personal affairs to reduce stress to tolerable levels, while getting sufficent exercise to remain fit, both in mind and body.

This is not so much treatment of ills, as the practice of AVOIDANCE of malign factors. There are times when the approach of peril or calamity cannot be avoided, and this is why the health services delivery systems exist. People can, and have, lived all through a series of personal injury and sickness, and never even sought the services of a doctor or other medical practitioner. “The doctor never made it to the house, and of consequence, his health was much improved.” Recovery from injury or illness is as much a process of will and fortitude, as it is of actual treatment, as every physician, were he honest, would attest to.

[mjp]

The moral justification of capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice.

Ayn Rand

[SoothingDave]

“Rationing” has a specific meaning of its own. It means: to distribute in a certain particular manner — by the decision of an absolute authority, with the recipients having no choice whatever about what they receive; it also means that all the recipients involved have an equal claim to that which is being rationed, and are entitled to an equal share.

It's fun to define terms to one's liking.

[TChris]

There is no “just” distribution of medical services apart from the voluntary exchanges between producers and consumers in a free market.

Every FReeper and lurker should repeat this sentence 1000, if necessary, to let this core principle of free market capitalism sink in.

Capitalism is nothing more nor less than economic liberty.

[socialismisinsidious]

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