Public care violates rights

The notion of a “right” to health care is merely a
perversion of the concept of rights. Any system that seeks to
fulfill this “right” is, ironically, a system that
violates the actual rights of almost everyone involved.

Accordingly, any kind of public universal health care plan is
immoral.

People have the right to do whatever they wish with their
persons and property so long as it doesn’t interfere with the
rights of others to do the same.

Wanting or needing something that belongs to someone else does
not give you the right to take it from them by force, whether at
the point of your own gun or that of the government.

Therefore, the right to health care doesn’t exist, because
any such “right” imposes an affirmative obligation on
others ““ it forces customers to purchase insurance, providers
to insure all of those customers, and doctors to receive any
patient, regardless of their own judgment of the best course of
action.

The rights most obviously violated by this arrangement are the
rights of the companies themselves.

The individuals who own and operate a company have the right to
do so however they see fit, so long as they are not violating
anyone else’s rights.

If it is unprofitable to sell health insurance to a particular
individual, the company has the right to refuse the sale.

Forcing the company to accept all customers substitutes the
judgment of bureaucrats for the experience-based judgment of the
owners.

This is true whether the insurance companies are actual private
corporations or government-run organizations.

Additionally, universal health care violates the rights of
customers. First, it forces everyone to have health insurance.

Today, healthy people may decide not to buy health insurance
because they expect to have few or no medical costs.

Universal health care would deprive them of the right to
exercise their own judgment in meeting their health care needs.

Furthermore, it violates the rights of employers to decide how
to compensate their employees. Employees do not have a right to
anything except what has been mutually agreed upon in the
negotiation for employment.

Additionally, employees whose skills are not high enough to make
them desirable when an employer must pay for health care on top of
their wages will not be able to work at all.

This problem is compounded by the fact that, in a universal
health care system, the forced insuring of individuals drives up
costs for everyone.

Finally, universal health care smuggles in a premise even more
vicious than its explicit goals.

In a universal health care system, doctors must treat any and
all patients that come to them; they no longer have the right to
practice medicine as they see fit.

Thus, universal health care violates the rights of both the
people forced to provide it and the people forced to purchase
it.

The consequences, not surprisingly, are quite dismal.

Increased average claims will drive up costs for everyone,
doctors will provide a lower quality of care, and fewer people will
want to be doctors, which will exacerbate the problem for existing
doctors and push costs up even more (or result in longer waits for
care).

In short, the medical system as we know it will simply
deteriorate until it is destroyed or health care is returned to the
private sector.

It is not the government’s job to provide health care.

The government exists to protect rights, not violate them.

Any system that requires the violating of our rights must be
denounced.

Triplett is a UCLA alumna. She is the former director of
finance for L.O.G.I.C.