Nobody Has a Right to Healthcare

No, Obama, the goods and services which are categorized as healthcare are most certainly not a “right for everybody.” Such goods and services can only be obtained through purchase, charity, or theft. Just because you (and other politicians) aren’t even ethical enough to oppose something as blatantly immoral as theft doesn’t change the nature of reality.

Every politician who votes for subsidies—to anyone, for anything—is a thief, no better (and quite possibly worse) than a masked robber who points a loaded firearm at a frightened clerk and demands they fill a dirty sack with the money from a cash register.

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Parrish Miller has worked as a web designer, policy analyst, blogger, journalist, digital media manager, and social media marketing consultant. Having been largely cured of his political inclinations, he now finds philosophy more interesting than politics and is focused particularly on alternative ideas such as counter-economics, agorism, voluntaryism, and unschooling.