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Health Care Is Not A Right

By Leonard Peikoff, PhD, updated by Lin Zinser in 2007

A powerful essay on the immorality of socialized medicine.

(Printable PDF version)


Government-Run Health Care Vs. The Hippocratic Oath

By Paul Hsieh

The Objective Standard, Spring 2010


How the Freedom to Contract Protects Insurability

By Paul Hsieh

The Objective Standard, Fall 2009


Mandatory Insurance: Wrong For Massachusetts, Wrong For America

By Paul Hsieh

The Objective Standard, Fall 2008


Moral Health Care Vs. 'Universal Health Care'

By Lin Zinser and Paul Hsieh

The Objective Standard, Winter 2007-2008




All Editorials


ObamaCare vs. the Hippocratic Oath

By Paul Hsieh

PajamasMedia, March 18, 2010


What America Needs to Know What's at Stake with Obama Care

By Paul Hsieh

Gold Coast Chronicle, March 15, 2010


Can the Moral "Narrative" of ObamaCare Be Defeated?

By Paul Hsieh

PajamasMedia, March 4, 2010


Republicans: Beware the Trap of 'Limited' Reforms

By Paul Hsieh

PajamasMedia, February 25, 2010


Government Grab of Retirement Accounts

By Paul Hsieh

PajamasMedia, February 22, 2010


Polis and Health Care Reform

By Paul Hsieh

Boulder Daily Camera, February 4, 2010


Why We're 'Crazy' About Health Care Choice

By Linda Gorman and Brian T. Schwartz

Aurora Sentinel, January 29, 2010


Brown's Victory: The Declaration of Independents

By Paul Hsieh

PajamasMedia, January 21, 2010


America Doesn't Need a Health Insurance Czar

By Paul Hsieh

PajamasMedia, January 18, 2010


Health Insurers' 'Sins' Don't Justify Reform

By Brian T. Schwartz

PajamasMedia, January 8, 2010

(A version also appeared in the Boulder Daily Camera, January 24 2010)


ObamaCare: Tightening the Noose Around Private Health Care

By Paul Hsieh

PajamasMedia, December 15, 2009


Mafia-Style Health Insurance: An Offer You Can't Refuse

By Paul Hsieh

Washington Examiner, November 16, 2009


Dissent and nationalization of health care

By Hannah Krening

Denver Post, November 8, 2009


Bizarro Health Care 'Reform': Expect Less, Pay More

By Brian T. Schwartz

PajamasMedia, November 5, 2009


ObamaCare: A National Version of RomneyCare

By Paul Hsieh

PajamasMedia, November 2, 2009


Pay Your Own Doctors

By Ari Armstrong

Colorado Daily, October 1, 2009


The Real Stakes

By Paul Hsieh

Denver Post, October 1, 2009


Health Care in Massachusetts: A Warning for America

By Paul Hsieh

Christian Science Monitor, September 30, 2009


Republican plans for health care reform similar to Obamacare

By Ari Armstrong

Colorado Springs Gazette, September 18, 2009.


Is Your Doctor Getting Ready to Quit?

By Paul Hsieh

PajamasMedia, September 18, 2009


Restore free market to address preexisting conditions

By Linn and Ari Armstrong, 

Grand Junction Free Press, September 14, 2009


Health Care Is Not a Privilege … Nor Is It a Right

By Brian T. Schwartz

Pajamas Media, September 8, 2009


The Free Market Is Not Another Form of Rationing

By Paul Hsieh

PajamasMedia, September 1, 2009


Debunking health care reform myths

By Linn and Ari Armstrong

Grand Junction Free Press, August 31, 2009


Rationing inherent in Obamacare

By Ari Armstrong

Colorado Springs Gazette, August 14, 2009


In health debate, left and right need to check premises

By Linn and Ari Armstrong

Grand Junction Free Press, August 3, 2009


The Federal Health Care Muggers

By Paul Hsieh

PajamasMedia, July 24, 2009


DeMint's health handouts violate liberty

By Linn and Ari Armstrong

Grand Junction Free Press, July 20, 2009


More poison, not an antidote: Mandating employer health insurance

By Brian T. Schwartz

Boulder Daily Camera, June 28, 2009

(Also in the Denver Daily News, August, 21 2009)


Reject political control of health care

By Linn and Ari Armstrong

Grand Junction Free Press, June 24, 2009


Health Care Reform vs. Universal Health Care

By Paul Hsieh

PajamasMedia, May 5, 2009


Health Insurance Industry Sells Its Soul to the Devil

By Paul Hsieh

PajamasMedia, March 22, 2009


HB 1273: Politicians cannot “guarantee” health care

By Brian T. Schwartz

Colorado Daily, March 7, 2009

(Also in the Denver Daily News, March 9, 2009)


Ayn Rand and the Tea Party Protests

By Paul Hsieh

PajamasMedia, March 2, 2009


America Doesn't Need a Health Care Czar

By Paul Hsieh

Washington Examiner, February 23, 2009


Universal Healthcare and the Waistline Police

By Paul Hsieh

Christian Science Monitor, January 7, 2009


Polis vs. Polis on Cars and Health Care

By Paul Hsieh

Boulder Daily Camera, December 28, 2008


Liberty is best prescription for health care, 

By Brian T. Schwartz

Rocky Mountain News, December 26, 2008


Asking For Trouble In Health Care

By Paul Hsieh

Colorado Springs Gazette, November 22, 2008


Free market reforms healthier than Amendment 56

By Paul Hsieh

Rocky Mountain News, September 19, 2008


Health Care: Unions Lie, Choice Dies, 

By Brian T. Schwartz

Colorado Daily, July 14, 2008


Mandating health care coverage is a costly mistake

By Paul Hsieh

Denver Post, April 9, 2008


No Compassion in Forced Giving

By Brian T. Schwartz

Rocky Mountain News, April 6, 2008


Polis implies he'd represent the worst in us

By Brian T. Schwartz

Rocky Mountain News, February 26, 2008


"Universal" Health Care Kills

By Brian T. Schwartz

Colorado Daily, February 24, 2008

(Also in Hawaii Reporter, February 29, 2008; Salida Mountain Mail, March 3, 2008; Pueblo Chieftain, April 13, 2008)


Freedom is compassionate, force is not

By Linn and Ari Armstrong

Grand Junction Free Press, February 4, 2008


A Very Costly Health Care Solution

By Linda Gorman and Ari Armstrong

Rocky Mountain News, January 30, 2008


More Political Control of Medicine Comes With Higher Costs

By Linn and Ari Armstrong

Grand Junction Free Press, January 21, 2008


The Collective Punishment Model

By Brian T. Schwartz

TCS Daily, January 14, 2008

(Also in Colorado Springs Gazette, January 31, 2008; Rocky Mountain News, February 7, 2008; Pueblo Chieftain, February 10, 2008) 


Insurance Mandates Threaten Your Health

By Linn and Ari Armstrong

Grand Junction Free Press, October 15, 2007


'Single-Payer' Health Care Is Anything but Free

By Paul Hsieh

Colorado Springs Business Journal, September 28, 2007


Government Control is Bad for Your Health, [print edition]

By Brian T. Schwartz

Rocky Mountain News, September 26, 2007 


Reformers demand more labor for politically-run medicine

By Linn and Ari Armstrong

Grand Junction Free Press, September 3, 2007


Medicaid is Hazardous to Your Health, [print edition]

By Brian T. Schwartz

Daily Camera, August 26, 2007


Don't Model State Reforms on Medicaid  [print edition]

By Brian T Schwartz

Denver Post, August 5, 2007


Health socializers ignore benefits of liberty, harms of controls

By Linn and Ari Armstrong

Grand Junction Free Press, June 11, 2007


Socialized Medicine is Wrong for State

By Paul Hsieh

Boulder Daily Camera, June 10, 2007


Free market holds key to ensuring quality for Coloradans

By Paul Hsieh

Rocky Mountain News, June 2, 2007


Government controls violate rights, raise costs, cut access, 

By Brian T. Schwartz

Rocky Mountain News, April 28, 2007


What's Right With Colorado Health Care

By Ari Armstrong

Independence Institute, April 8, 2007


Colorado Medical Socialism

By Ari Armstrong

Boulder Weekly, February 15, 2007


Government-Run Auto Repair? Yes!

By Brian T. Schwartz

Boulder Daily Camera, February 11, 2007


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