Repeal and then Laissez-Faire

Obamacare has been a disaster.  So many politicians have spoken out against it that it will easily be repealed.  But, what about those who have run on the platform: Repeal and Replace?  The "Replace" part is what I want to address in this blog.  Replace could mean many things.  Will it be: a laissez-faire free market, Medicaid and Medicare as it was prior to Obamacare, or, a half-hearted, attempt at Capitalism--but then a drift back towards Obamacare again?

Medicine is a market that tries to save human life.  The more medicine one buys, the longer one can usually live.  However, the reality is that eventually each individual will die.  Another truth of reality is that one day one's own money will not be able to keep one alive.  So, when that day of reckoning comes, when an individual cannot preserve one's own life, what will happen?  Will government take from producers to give the accepting parasite a way?

Besides the fundamental, human reality, there is also a consequential, systemic one.  If a political system does go the Medicaid and Medicare route, the more money it takes from producers, the worse the problem gets.  Since, generally, the longer a parasite lives, the more the producer drain, there is no resolution in sight, other than to remove the government socialism and let the dependent die.

Due to the two truths of reality: human mortality and private economic limits, I believe that socialized medicine is bad business.

Along with my conviction that Capitalism is the moral system--where the Producers get to keep their Property and Constitutionally law-abiding Individuals have their Liberty respected by government--I support a system of Capitalist Medicine that operates according to the principles of Laissez-Faire.

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter