Campaign For Liberty — Libertarian Health-Care Alternative: Medical Choice - Part I

Campaign For Liberty — Libertarian Health-Care Alternative: Medical Choice - Part I: "There are many reasons to oppose government-run health care, but we only really need the first one; the government will run it."

"The problem with our health care system is economic inefficiency – cost escalation in health care has outpaced other sectors of the economy. Health care and health insurance are two of the most regulated economic sectors; if government interference was the answer, we would not have the problem. Economic inefficiency in health care starts with the disempowerment of the consumer in medical choice. We consumers (patients) have very little effective say over what care we receive and what we will pay."

"Where choice and competition exits and consumers pay directly for the health care services they receive, costs do not escalate; in many cases, they have gone down. Who could have imagined $4 prescription drugs five years ago? Or $29 eyeglasses? Who could have predicted how inexpensive laser eye surgery has become? Free market capitalists, that’s who. These examples do not come from the world of over-regulated, third-party-pay medicine; they were produced by consumer choice, provider competition, and direct payment. Medical Choice works."