So What Is The Plan?
Monday, August 3rd, 2009via Ace
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Supporters of public health insurance reply that for all its inefficiencies, their system at least is more just. But even this isn’t true.
Their conception of justice is based on the idea that certain goods like health (and education? and food? where do you stop?) should be made available to all through coercive redistribution by the state. If, on the contrary, we define justice in terms of liberty, then justice forbids coercing some (taxpayers, doctors, and nurses) into providing health services to others. Providing voluntarily for your neighbor in need may be morally good. Forcing your neighbor to help you is morally wrong.
