Milton Friedman – Curing American Health Care
Milton Friedman discusses the free market solution to America’s health care problems. www.LibertyPen.com
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October 14th, 2009 at 2:06 am
Peter Schiff’s father sold health insurance back in the 60′s, and it was 15 dollars a year I believe. I think I could find it on youtube. When I find it, I’ll post the link.
November 6th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
We as conservatives stand against the socialized government controlled vaccine program that currently exists in the United States.
We want to privatize this institution. Americans should have the freedom to take responsibility for themselves, stop looking for hand outs, and shop the free market for a best H1N1 vaccine.
NO to publicly funded vaccines.
November 11th, 2009 at 4:00 am
milt speaks the truth here
December 16th, 2009 at 4:07 am
So if poor people die because they can’t afford a doctor, it’s their own fault, because in a free society, they brought their poverty upon themselves..?
December 22nd, 2009 at 8:16 am
The Obama Administration did NOT approve this video posting.
December 31st, 2009 at 8:26 am
@Andybaby
Did you watch the video?
“Which of the other great reforms of government have achieved their objectives?
I take it you mean the Federal housing program has solved the problem of housing for the low income group?
I take it you mean that the Federal welfare program has solved the problems of welfare and indigence and dependence?” – etc
Do you honestly think that a Federal medical program will will solve any of the problems it’s been promised to fix? I doubt it.
December 31st, 2009 at 2:35 pm
In Australia I have the peace of mind that no matter how well I am doing financially, I will be able to get medical treatment, no questions asked.
Take away the dole / welfare, and we’d end up with people shooting each other in the street, like the USA.
And btw, if Friedman is right, then isn’t the Government itself part of the ‘free market’, operated by individually focused people pursuing their own interests? Isn’t it just the ‘Greed is good’ principle applied to a different type of monopoly?
January 4th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
In Australia, the waiting lists for medical treatment are a perrenial problem and such rationing of care invariably yields lethal results (and, as it happens, the banning of gun ownership resulted in a rise in gun deaths, but that’s another issue) while people are NOT dying in the streets from lack of care in the US and we have the finest actual health care in the world.
And no govt is, by definition, not part of the free market nor is monopoly a condition that typically occurs in it.
January 27th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Indeed ;’/
January 27th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Or YOU can help them, instead of making the government steal other’s people money to do the job that you can do it with your own money.. Atleast, thats what you would do if you cared so much about poor people… Dont you think?..
January 28th, 2010 at 6:12 am
You live in a different Australia than I do then. You may have “peace of mind” that you will get treatment, but it won’t be up to the standard as is available in the US. They ration care here, but you seem to like that.
February 25th, 2010 at 6:03 am
@Andybaby In a free society, there would be people willing and able to help the poor voluntarily because they can afford to. That is far better than forcably taking money from some in the name of benevolence. Two wrongs do not make a right.
February 28th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
@FletchforFreedom yes, because in the US people don’t die in the streets from lack of care, they die in their own homes because they can’t afford it. Thank fuck I live in Britain; NHS isn’t great, but it’s done me and those around me the job. I’d never live in America, unless they got rid of private health care; err actually, even then I wouldn’t live in america, you’ve got more problems then us. Why did half your country vote for Bush? Oh of course, it’s america after all, how stupid of me.
February 28th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
Yes, how stupid of you. No, people are not dying in the US from lack of care ANYWHERE. The CDC puts that figure at less than 3,000 per year out of 300 million. Compare that to the number of people who die due to care rationing in Britain (not to mention the far higher survival rates for serious disease in the US) and I thank God I live in the US where the care quality (including access) is far superior.
Nice try, o factually challenged one.
March 9th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
@Andybaby actually, most of the gun violence in the usa is centered around people living on some form of welfare in the US. it also makes it more profitable for families on welfare to remain on welfare rather than get a low paying job. friedman has a lot of videos that deal with all these things if you look them up. including the idea of government being part of the free market. in a way he agreed with that
March 12th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Well said my friend!
March 13th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
This gets to the heart of ethics; is it morally right to steal money from someone even if what you do with it will help someone else out? Just because something is “legal” doesn’t mean it’s a good thing to do. And when you convince yourself that what you’re doing, though wrong, is good and just, you can convince yourself to commit any atrocity, no matter how heinous, all because you believe in the ultimate good of your end. This is why the Ends do not justify the Means.
April 3rd, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Agree with break AMA; disagree with no licensure, but this can still be regulated by the states to assure patient safety.
April 3rd, 2010 at 11:23 pm
This guy is awesome.
April 11th, 2010 at 11:54 am
What does licensing mean to the consumer? Essentially, it is a certificate of competency. That should not be controlled in a monopolistic way, to be sure. But we still want to insure competency. Well . . . isn’t that the whole point of a diploma from an independently accredited school of medicine? THAT should be all the certification one needs. Let the consumer decide which diplomas are worthy.
April 20th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
@deathtrapdeath neither did the EU
April 30th, 2010 at 8:08 am
Do you know that in a public, single payer system, as in our NHS in the UK, we have to pay for healthcare that is selected by bureaucrats serving the apparently homogeneous patient of ‘the nation’ and because it is free at the point of service thus avoiding the evils of a free, responsible and responsive (to the consumer) market in healthcare we get the privilege of waiting in queues after paying in each year. Like if you DIDN’T pay in a private system! So what’s the benefit? There isn’t one!
May 16th, 2010 at 12:28 am
@DEATHMASK108 your comment is a distinction without a difference. state control, fed control, no difference.
May 18th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
I’m sorry Milton, but I do think it’s a reactionary comment. I’m going to go ahead and read that book of his. I guess you cannot have an open field with licensing, but it seems to me like the free market is becoming an end in and of itself rather than a means to make our society better.
I don’t think reactionary opinions hold any water. Noone wants a completely socialized state, so let’s find a new, better way. Not pretend that we can fall back on utopian ideas because they sound elegant+simple
May 18th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
@Yony42 You want to mix capitalism (voluntary) with socialism (force)? I would only remind you that any compromise between food and poison results in poison.