Capturing the Moral High Ground Part 2/3 Why Only Private Health Care is Moral by Yaron Brook

Capturing the Moral High Ground Part 2 of 3 was the concluding talk from a presentation given at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on September 19, 2009 by Yaron Brook during a public briefing on the "Joint Defense of Freedom in American Medicine" sponsored by Americans for Free Choice in Medicine. Other talks from this presentation can be found on this YouTube Site.


All ideas that involve government intervention in health care are based on the false morality of need. Only private health care is consistent with the individualistic founding principles of America which include individual liberty, personal responsibility, and free market economics.

This lecture explains why an understanding of the issue at a political and economic level alone is not enough to combat the ever increasing slide toward socialism and collectivism. Only by understaning how our political decisions improperly place the false morality of need above the proper morality of individual rights will we be able to institute the proper political policies.

This presentation provides an introduction on how to develop a deeper philosophical understanding of the issue. If you find this approach compelling, please do the following: send the link to your contacts; go to www.AynRandCenter.org and www.AFCM.org and sign up as a supporter; view the entire briefing there; view more videos and written material; become actively involved with the debate.

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[atlasshrugged713]

Agree...With all due respect to Leonard Peikoff, Dr. Brook is a far better public figure to represent the Ayn Rand Institute.

[l3mu3lhu3r]

Well done; on to part 3! :)

[MrChirpsky]

In a sane society, need is supply-side. The service exists to meet an existing or perceived need and should only exist to satisfy, not manufacture, that need. Those who satisfy it most efficiently are rewarded (made benefactors in their chosen profession) over those who are less able. Just as supply constitutes its own demand, so need constitutes its own satisfaction. But here is a man who satisfies his needs by doing naught but preaching against satisfying the needs of "superfluous" others!

[CapitalistPhil]

I love this Yaron, your getting really good! Not that you weren't good before, before I can sense the anger in your voice. It's good.

[g0ssage]

If every man would sweep his own door-step the world would soon be clean.

[legendre007]

Excellent, Yaron Brook! :-D