Ron Paul spoke about health care reform with NPR the other day and made a point that few people have addressed; namely that there is no such thing as a “right” to health care:
Host: Now one of the strongest opponents of government intervention in reforming the healthcare industry is Congressman Ron Paul, Republican of Texas. He’s known to some as “Dr. No” for his opposition to tax hikes and for his refusal to vote for spending bills. He’s a doctor by training and OBGYN and he’s written a new book simply called “End the Fed” as in the Federal Reserve. I spoke with Ron Paul earlier. We started with health care, which he doesn’t believe is a fundamental right.
Ron Paul: I do not believe peoples’ needs or desires or wants or demands are rights. Once you do that you embark on a system of government that is uncontrollable. You have a right to your life, your liberty, and you should have a right to keep what you earn. So I do not believe medical care is a right and that’s one of the problems that we are facing today and why there’s so much confusion about what we ought to do about healthcare.
September 28th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Ron Paul’s been impressing me more and more as of late.
September 30th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
I don’t understand how anyone can say that they have a right to another person’s labor.