Health Care
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The Issue: Recent decades have witnessed
growing government involvement in the health care system. That involvement
has led to bureaucratic top-down management, rapidly escalating prices, costly
regulations, the criminalization of the practice of medicine and a host
of other problems. None of these problems was prevalent prior to the time
when government began to increase its involvement. We believe that government
involvement is the principal cause of many of the problems we face in the
health care system today. The high cost of health insurance is largely due
to government's excessive regulation of the industry.
The Principle: We recognize the right of
individuals free from government interference and its harmful side effects
to determine the level of insurance they want, the level of care they want,
the care providers they want, the medicines and treatments they will use
and all other aspects of their medical care. Government's role in any kind
of insurance should only be to enforce contracts when necessary, not to dictate
to insurance companies and consumers which kinds of insurance contracts they
may voluntarily agree upon.
Solutions: We favor restoring and reviving
a free market health care system. We advocate a complete separation of medicine
from the State. We support an end to government-provided health insurance
and health care. Both of these functions can be more effectively provided
in the private sector.
Transitional Action: We oppose any government
restriction or funding of medical or scientific research.
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