More Government Won’t Help

By Ron Paul
Statement before the United States House of Representatives, September 23, 2009

Government has been mismanaging medical care for more than 45 years; for every problem it has created it has responded by exponentially expanding the role of government. Points to consider:

1.) No one has a right to medical care. If one assumes such a right, it endorses the notion that some individuals have a right to someone else’s life and property. This totally contradicts the principles of liberty.

2.) If medical care is provided by government, this can only be achieved by an authoritarian government unconcerned about the rights of the individual.

3.) Economic fallacies accepted for more than 100 years in the United States has deceived policy makers into believing that quality medical care can only be achieved by government force, taxation, regulations, and bowing to a system of special interests that creates a system of corporatism.

4.) More dollars into any monopoly run by government never increases quality but it always results in higher costs and prices.