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This month on March 23 marks 16 years of President Obama’s nationalization of health insurance. When I read the legislation in the early years of the century, I knew what it meant: the beginning of accelerated rot and decay of the medical profession.
I knew, too, that the cost of medicine and so-called health care—dumbed down to the consolidated term healthcare—would escalate, contrary to Barack Obama‘s name for his illegal, immoral legislation, the Affordable Care Act. I knew the quality of medical care would rapidly decline.
I knew that the bureaucracy of health insurance cartels—in no sense was health insurance as an industry an example of capitalism (then as now the state-sponsored and favorited cartel was regulated and essentially controlled by the United States government)—would metastasize and spread.
I’m writing this not because my forecast was right, though it was right and I wrote extensively, repeatedly and passionately in opposition long before ObamaCare became law. I’m writing because now, as then, before Obama’s monstrosity was enacted, I am convinced that ObamaCare must, can and ought to be undone.
The assassination of one of the health pseudo-insurance cartel’s chiefs—Brian Thompson, the boss of United Healthcare, who unjustly was shot and killed in Manhattan by a leftist assassin—is a crucial indicator of America’s moral crisis caused by government control of “healthcare”. Crisis was forecast by Ayn Rand and Leonard Peikoff, who rightly lectured in the middle of the 1980s that medicine was dead as a profession—expressly, that all forms of government control of health care and medicine would collapse and cripple the U.S. economy and ruin lives.
Exacerbated by ObamaCare, it’s happening here and now. Whatever the advancements in medicine—as residual byproduct of what remains of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution—whatever proclamations of America’s best doctors—America has the best medicine in the world—today’s medical system is collapsing under its own injustice as millions of Americans struggle, despair and die from ObamaCare’s death sentences, denials, delays, distress and impoverishment caused by Obama’s redistribution of wealth and enslavement of medicine.
ObamaCare must be repealed in whole, not leaving its worst provisions intact as President Trump once proposed. The law must be repealed, decimated, destroyed. Only capitalism in medicine, pure capitalism, lets you live free and thrive.
Personal Note
I once shared a home and life with someone who sought to become a doctor. During that time, I observed firsthand the toll of government control on a man’s character. The experience prompted me to expedite my opposition to injustice and deviate from my career path with a five-year editorial leadership of a failed crusade for capitalism in medicine. My effort endured for 14 years in total.
I have strong views on what downed the campaign, which dwindled into an ivory tower where it was all but snuffed out by those who regard health policy as the province of the privileged few. It’s another tragic tale of altruism, including and especially among Objectivists who tend to be narrow-minded and rationalistic, with exceptions such as Leonard Peikoff and John David Lewis, both of whom carried on against ObamaCare and never let up. Dr. Peikoff, too, had a personal stake as the son and brother of “the forgotten man of socialized medicine,” the doctor, and as a man who began his life in earnest as a pre-medical student until he read and met Ayn Rand. Afflicted with esophageal cancer, the late Dr. Lewis was motivated as a matter of life and death. They are champions in the cause for free choice in medicine.
It’s still a noble cause. It remains my cause. Can the cause of capitalism in medicine, which begins with the abolition of ObamaCare’s enslavement, prompt you to think and fight to live free? If so, do what I did in 1993: focus on what you can do; whether writing a post or investing in a campaign. This means activism. Whatever you can do begins with an idea. I challenge you to mark your 2027 calendar (March 23) in advance for acts of progress. In the meantime, as Ayn Rand wrote: “Don’t let it go.” Gear up.
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