Since there is much misinformation and non-logic being churned out of both the Democrat camp AND the Republican camp (make no mistake, many Republicans are being manipulated by the cartelized insurance industry who are profiting richly thanks to the government's forced insurance and regulations) on the healthcare issue, I've compiled a reader of fantastic articles to help you plow through the nonsense. I'll be adding more articles as I find them. If any of you have any you'd like me to add, just send me the link.
(And a quick note, with this whole healthcare mess, we must remember what Henry Hazlitt taught us about looking not just at the immediate visible "benefits" of government healthcare intervention, but for the upcoming unseen consequences of government intervention.)
1) The Crisis -- the first couple articles brilliantly explain how we first got into the situation of high doctor/insurance costs and coverage denial with clever allegories
"The Health-Insurance Market Is Not Free", by Anton Batey http://mises.org/story/3727
"How to Make Using the Restroom as Expensive and Inconvenient as Getting a Physical", by Todd Steinberg http://www.lewrockwell.com/steinberg/steinberg15.1.html
"Autobama Universal Car Care: A Parallelism, by David Klein http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/klein-d1.1.1.html
"What If Car Insurance Were Like Health Insurance?, by Kaz Vorpal http://butnowyouknow.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/what-if-car-insurance-were-like-health-insurance/
"Single-Payer Groceries Anyone?", by Thomas DiLorenzo http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo176.html
"Economics of Risk and Insurance: From Healthcare to Welfare", by Hans-Hermann Hoppe http://mises.org/MultiMedia/mp3/MU2009/MU2009_Hoppe2_07-29-2009.mp3 (this is the Insurance lecture given by Hoppe at Mises University 2009 which I attended)
"Uncertainty and Its Exigencies: The Critical Role of Insurance in the Free Market ", by Hans-Hermann Hoppe http://www.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/uncertainty-insurance.html
""You're either with us or you're with the insurance companies!"
Healthcare Nazis Borrow Nauseating Logic from Dubya ", by Me (an article I wrote about a month ago -- thought I'd throw some of my own comments in here ;-)) http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle531-20090809-08.html
2) The Solution
"Healthcare: An Anarchist Approach", by Gary Chartier http://c4ss.org/content/892
"The Real Right to Medical Care versus Socialized Medicine", by George Reisman http://mises.org/story/3613
"A Four-Step Healthcare Solution", by Hans-Hermann Hoppe http://mises.org/story/3643
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