Daily Archives: Tuesday, 30 June 2009

It will be noticed that I have not in effect argued against Universal Health Care. Rather, I made two important points. One is that there is nothing called the The Government which has its own resources to provide health care to Americans; rather, such health care is something to which taxpayers must contribute. The second point is that it is morally wrong to put this burden upon taxpayers and none upon those whose health care will be paid for. I would rather that there be an outright revolution in America than that we should accede to President Barack Obama’s myopic conception of universal health care—one that ignores the morality that people first have a moral obligation to promote their own health before they have any entitlement to the support of the American people. Continue reading →