New Law Trashes Genetic Science

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A new law requires that insurance companies ignore a person's genetic risk factors in the sale of health insurance. Mr. Bowden, an attorney, writes about legal issues for the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, California

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[AndyMH182]

When you socialize anything you bring down everyone.

[grantsinmypants2]

tehowe,

Don't you think that you're, perhaps, throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

Are you disagreeing with Mr. Bowden, in principle, that free markets are bad? Of course there are all kinds of private sector villians cashing on today's mixed economy, but trashing them just plays into the socialist's hands. Besides, they're not the root of the problem.

And neither are your idiotic rants about eugenics and conspiracies.

[clemonsx90]

For government to run business they have to be in bed with the businesses. You can't maintain a kingdom without barons and lords just the same way you can't run a socialism without an upper class to act as a managerial class. Immoral businessmen want socialism so that they don't have to compete with moral businessmen. They want government handouts. Whom do you think the government consults before enacting regulations?

[clemonsx90]

You either have unregulated capitalism or you have socialism (a mix of government planning and free enterprise). Men may interact by one of two principles, they may exchange value for value (free trade) or they may exchange violence for value. Its your whips or our minds. Every oppressive socialist regime causes a stagnation of free thought in the long run. The unintuitive reason for this is that you can't think under compulsion, it doesn't work.

[clemonsx90]

Your right to live isn't your right to take MY MONEY. My money is my own ability to sustain my own life, to buy my own healthcare, and to buy the things that make life worth living. If I make billions of dollars creating and selling to you the services you need to flourish, you've no right to then demand my hard earned money. You have the right to PURSUE happiness, not the right to be happy at my expense. The man who doesn't recognize property rights is a savage.

[abdulsidibe]

Just listern to that capitalist moron? and his ranting. He is in effect saying that quality health is commodity that can be profited from. Our health and our lives are inseperable. What happens to the preamble of constitution that granted the right to live? Quality health is a right, that explains the reason hospitals are not allowed to deny care to people because they can't pay. Even enermy combatants in battle field are given health care by the capturing army, let alone citizens

[richardcadbury]

you are correct in all but one sense, and that is your use of the mildly orwellian term "healthcare".

since when did medicine start being called "healthcare"?

the word carries the nasty innuendo that if you oppose socialised medicine, you are against health, and against care.

[mtaj1981]

How dare insurance companies help those than need insurance eh? (In case yea can't tell that is sarcasm) The basic principle of insurance is to indemnify the misfortune of the few by pooling the contributions of many. It is a give and take system, lets see how much you wine about higher premiums when this law hits you close to home and saves you or someone you care about.

[freericecars]

Yes, AndyMH182, your definition of fascism is incorrect.

[freericecars]

great video! If only more Americans understood the key words in this video: "Healthcare is NOT a RIGHT"... So many Americans think that it is.

[AndyMH182]

I thought fascism was defined as business in bed with government, or where business runs the government. I don't see the connection, unless our definitions are different.