Individual Rights & Health Care Reform Part 3 of 3

Individual Rights & Health Care Reform Part 3 of 3 from a presentation given at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on September 19,2009 by John David Lewis, Ph.D during a public briefing on the "Joint Defense of Freedom in American Medicine" sponsored by Americans for Free Choice in Medicine.

The lecture focuses on a principled understanding of health care finance as it relates to the philosophical, moral and political concept of rights. Regardless of whether or not you agree with the conclusions reached in this presentation, without an understanding and consideration of the moral and philosophical issues involved, it is impossible to have an educated opinion about this subject. Discussions that simply involve a "feeling" about what is the "right" thing to do while ignoring an understanding of the issue at this level, will result in "solutions" that will not only fail, but will be morally wrong and harm all parties involved including the ones that are intended to be helped.

This presentation provides an introduction on how to develop 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.JohnDavidLewis.com and www.AFCM.org and sign up as a supporter; view the entire briefing there when it is available; view more videos and written material; become actively involved with the debate.

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[lucentenor]

gcat, the problem isn't pursuit of profit. The problem is being able to use force to obtain profit (i.e. government subsidy, regulatory protectionism and supressing competition) Think of GM.

[DavidsIllustrations]

your welcome to visit our hospitals here in the UK if you want, but i can assure you from my experience our system is nothing short of tragic

[thewahlmighty]

Brilliant! Love these two comments: "Any proper health care reform has to be morally grounded if it is to be practical" and "The reason socialized medicine has been such a failure in all those areas is because it is a moral failure; it is morally wrong."

[BrassiXXL]

This guy is an imbicile. I thought ppl hith PhDs were supposed to be intelligent? He talks about all these other healthcare programs failing... Like in France? Like in Brittain or Canada? What is this moron talking about? The biggest failing healthcaee system is by far the US. Then when you factor in the fact that they put in an astronomically greater amount of $ than any other country, its absolutely absurd. With all the $ being spent, the US should be #1 in healthcare, yet theye not even close

[angeliaparish]

omg!  employers began offering health insurance to circumvent WWII government control of pay raises!

[gcat4u]

As long as the health insurance company's primary objective is profits then we are all screwed