From Richard E. Ralston, Executive Director, Americans for Free Choice in Medicine (AFCM):
In last night’s Democratic National Convention acceptance speech, Sen.John Kerry proclaimed that everyone has a “right” to health care. He also said that doctors and patients should always be able to make health care decisions without the approval of HMO bureaucrats.
No one has the right to force others to give them anything they want regardless of cost. No health care system in the world ever has or ever will do that. It is impossible.
Instead of promising the health care equivalent of bread and circuses, Sen. Kerry should offer Americans more freedom and less government control of medicine.
Recommended Reading:
Health Care Is Not A Right
“I do not agree that socialized medicine is moral and well-intentioned, but impractical. Of course, it is impractical — it does not work — but I hold that it is impractical because it is immoral….”