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No, there's no consensus plan. They just leak the plan that the Republicans are considering. And it looks like just a rehash of Obamacare. It looks like a just a, you know, improving Obamacare. The Speaker Boehner, former Speaker of the House, said that the Republicans would actually not really do away with Obamacare. And they would just, what do you say, build a conservative box around it, and they would fix Obamacare, that's it. He said that they would fix Obamacare. Why? I mean, this is just bizarre. This is the party that for six years has been telling us they are going to repeal and replace, or repeal. They've even passed bills to repeal and replace Obamacare. Over and over and over again, of course, knowing that President Obama would veto it, or that it wouldn't get through the Senate. And where is the Trump administration? I mean, this administration was supposed to be the administration that was going to get rid of the regulatory state. What did Bannon say the other day? Not do away with they were going to deconstruct the administrative state. Deconstruct the administrative state. I mean, that sounds fantastic. Why isn't it happening, at least with Obamacare? Why is it not happening? You would think that by now, they would at least have a plan on the table, or at least the leaked plans that the Republicans were considering would not look like a leftist proposal. We'll get to the details of this plan in a minute. And it's not just this. Do we really think we're going to see a significant change to the entitlement state that we live in? A significant reduction in welfare? Why is it, for example, the Republicans and the Trump administration have said, they're not going to touch Medicare? Why can't they touch Medicare? Now, there's politics involved, but not even flow to proposal. And they say they're going to cut regulations. And indeed, there's some executive orders to suggest that this is something they want to roll back. But I suspect very little is going to get done on that front as well. Something has to change in the American culture for us to actually really get serious about draining the swamp. I'm all for draining the swamp. And in this case, the swamp, in my view, is the welfare state and the administrative state. I want to get rid of regulations. I want to slash, cut, burn regulations. I want to cut welfare. I want to eliminate entitlements. I want to get Americans back to where they rely on themselves. They take responsibility for their own lives. And it doesn't look like it's going to happen. And again, why wasn't there supposed to be a revolutionary election? Didn't the revolution start with Donald Trump being elected? We were going to get a return to true personal responsibility to foundational ideas and values of America. And unfortunately, as is no, nothing's changed. I mean, we've got a president who's obviously different, and his rhetoric is different, and so much of what he said is different. And yeah, he's going to do different things. But in terms of anything fundamental, in terms of the ideas that the culture holds, nothing's changed. I mean, imagine if we said, you know what? People are going to be responsible for themselves, and it's wrong. It's wrong. For me to get worse health care, for me to get to have to pay high premiums and insurance so somebody else can get covered for pre-existing conditions. You know what? It's tough. Life is tough. Sometimes you get pre-existing conditions. It's going to make life difficult. Live with it. Suck it up and live with it. Charity, family, you know, I believe, I believe that the market would actually evolve products that would deal with people who have pre-existing conditions. But generally, imagine a campaign that said, or imagine a president or a congressman who said, you know what? It is wrong to force some people to subsidize the health care of other people. We believe in a free market. We're going to privatize everything. We're going to get rid of mandates. We're going to get rid of constraints on insurance companies. We're going to get rid of the requirement that you cover everybody whether they're sick or not. Imagine if everybody had paid the same for fire insurance, whether you had a history of lighting fires, whether your house was made of brick or wood or concrete. It didn't matter. Everybody paid the same rate on insurance no matter what. Well, that's what they want. Even with this appeal of a mama care, that's what they want to happen with health insurance. And they're so, don't believe in the ability to have free market health care that the Republicans want to subsidize it as well, just like a mama care, through tax credits. But tax credits are fine. I'm all for tax credits. I'm generally for less taxes, I pay the better. But they want age-based tax credits so that they give more tax credits, I think, to younger people to encourage them to buy insurance so that the insurance get younger people who are then subsidized or the government's really subsidizing through tax credits, well, subsidize old people's insurance. Why can't we really just say? Why can't we just say, we're going to let the market solve this problem. We don't have government figuring out and subsidizing smart phones for people. And somehow prices keep going down, quality keeps going up and everything is cool and the products get better and better and better and cheaper and cheaper and cheaper and really, really, really good. Imagine what the government would do if they designed the iPhone. What would it look like? And yeah, what happens to health care? No, no, we can't do that. Partially because we already have a mama care and they can't actually get rid of it because people are dependent on it and you can't do anything that might be perceived as harming somebody. But that's the problem, we have welfare, we have Medicare, we have Medicaid. You can't get rid of them because they already exist. When FDR put together the new deal, Republicans swore that they would undo everything he did because it was so harmful. And yeah, when they got into power, they kept it all. And when Johnson gave us the great society, the Republicans swore that they would undo everything and now they're the biggest defenders of the great society. Well, because fundamentally we hold a moral view and ethical view that says that your moral responsibility, your moral ethical responsibility in life is to take care of those in need. The most virtuous thing you can do in life is to sacrifice for your neighbor who needs something, needs health insurance, needs healthcare, needs a basic wage, needs an education, needs whatever. And your moral responsibility, your deepest sense of ethics means that you have to help him. And all the government is doing, all the government is doing here is it's helping you be a good person. It's taking money from you, it's reducing your options with regard to healthcare, it's making your insurance worse, it's making the availability of health services for you worse, it's sacrificing you for the sake of people in need. And who can object to that? Again, we have learned from one way, this big, that to be moral, to be good is to be my brother's keeper. And when the government wants to force me to be my brother's keeper, that's okay because it's trying to force me to do something that's basically right. And as long as we don't challenge that morality, as long as we don't question that morality, then you can't say I'm gonna repeal and move towards free market healthcare, repeal Obamacare and move, because free market healthcare is gonna require people to stand in their own two feet. Free market healthcare is gonna mean that some people are gonna be worse off, that some people's needs are actually not going to be met. And you're responsible for that, so this is why they go to the town hall meetings and yelling down Republicans and everything because they're expressing the fact that morally they find all this offensive. All right, you're listening to your Unbrook show and I wanna present an alternative ethics to you. An alternative, an alternative which is consistent with freedom, with capitalism and with private healthcare rather than government healthcare. 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All right, today I want to challenge you a little bit because I want to talk about ethics. I want to talk about morality. And I want to challenge the conventional wisdom that morality is about addressing the needs of others, that morality essentially is about sacrificing and about being selfless. And as a consequence of this morality, the morality that we hold that I think is a false morality, the consequence of that is that we can't undo social programs. We can't undo regulatory regimes. Now, how is regulation related to this? Because one of the things that this morality teaches us is that self-interest is evil, that people who engage in self-interest are bad people. And what's business about? Business is about self-interest. So therefore it must be that businessmen are bad people and therefore we need to regulate them. We need to control them. We need to look over their shoulder. So I think a lot of Republicans want to deregulate. They want to reduce welfare because they can see that evil their welfare is and they can see the damage that regulations do. But because they cannot take a moral stand for free markets, because they can't take a moral stand for capitalism, then the consequence of that is that nothing ever changes, that they can't win the battle, that they always lose. Republicans always, the free marketers always lose. So we've got a call from Cuff, Cuff I guess, who think things are getting better or getting done. Hey, Cuff, how's it going? President Trump, you just said it's about self-interest and that's exactly what President Trump is doing because for the first time he's putting off immigrants. It's not everything else around the world. So give me an example of something that's actually getting done. What is he done, done? He's keeping the immigrants out. And that is to be, you know, he's going to take care of people here at home, Americans first. And it's not going to be shifting, you know, it's going to be uranium for Russia and then it's money to Iran. And he's going to take care of us at home. What's so wrong with that? Isn't that self-interest? No, thanks, Cuff. Thanks for calling. But no, of course not because the whole point is that we don't want to get taken care of. I don't want people to take care of me. I want to be left alone. I want the burdens that the government has placed on me through regulations, through taxes, through welfare. I want to be unshackled. I want to be free. I want to be responsible for my own life. I don't need a CEO in Washington telling me how to live. I don't want some politicians telling me who to trade with and who not to trade with. I don't want some politicians penalizing me because I like German cars. But that's what our commanding chief wants to do. He doesn't want to achackle us. He's not trying to actually free us up. He's done nothing to actually deregulate, to actually give us, I mean, where's Obamacare? Obamacare should have been the first thing, right? This was the promise made. And yet already they're talking about we're going to keep pre-existing conditions. We're not going to really change the exchanges that much. We're going to force insurance companies to cover X, Y, and Z free markets, anybody? Does anybody still believe in free markets? So I'm eager to hear what you guys think, particularly those of you who are Republicans. You know, I'm not a Democrat, certainly, and I hate the left. But I ain't no Republican because they're wimps and they can't morally defend capitalism. They can't morally say that it's my right to live my life for my sake. And if you don't have health care, if you don't have health insurance, you have two options. You can kind of ask me for help, and I might help you and I might not. Or you can pull a gun and take my stuff from me. And the fact that you're using a government to take my stuff from me doesn't change the fact that you're a thief. So Obamacare is evil because it takes my money and subsidizes somebody else's health care. If I want to help somebody, I'll help them. But it's not my moral obligation to do it. It's not the government's job, certainly not any government's job, but it's certainly not an American government job to steal from me to give to somebody else. I think that's immoral, fundamentally, immoral. Why? Because for me, morality is about my life. For me, morality is about living my life, the best life that it can be. For me, morality is about leaving me free so I can make the choices necessary to pursue the values that I believe lead to a good life. So, you know, this morality of sacrifice, this morality of I owe my life to other people, and I go, why? Why should I owe my life to other people? I don't. I don't owe it. I don't owe them anything. My life is mine. And if I choose to have a relationship with another person, if I choose to help somebody else, because it serves my life, because it makes my life better, then I choose to do it. But stay out of it. You don't get to decide who I help and who I don't help. You don't get to pull out a gun and force me to help people, which is what the government does. So, you know, and if I don't want to deal with a businessman, because I don't trust him, I won't deal with him, but it's not the government's job unless the businessman is committing fraud, unless the businessman has done something that's violated the law, it's none of the government's business. Regulations are not laws in the traditional sense. Laws used to protect us from fraud. Laws used to protect us from people violating our rights, our property rights by stealing from us. Now, we've got all these regulations controlling, you know, controlling our behavior, what products we can make, when we can make them, even how much we can charge on them sometimes. Some things are subsidized, some things are taxed, some things the government perceives as good, some things the government perceives as bad. What about what I perceive? These are my choices. So, I want a morality, a code that says that what we need is a code of values to achieve successful human individual life. And I really recommend you all agree or disagree, read Ayn Rand, particularly read Ayn Rand's essay, The Objectivist Ethics, in a book called The Virtue of Selfishness. And it's not the kind of selfishness you typically think of. It's not the selfishness of doing whatever you feel like doing. It's not the selfishness of, you know, stabbing your neighbor in the back. No, the most selfish thing you can do in life is to think. It's the focus. It's to figure out what is good for you in life. And it's about trade and cooperation and building and creating stuff. But it means that your primary moral obligation, your primary obligation in life is to live, is to be successful. It's to achieve happiness. It's to produce and to keep what you produce because you produced it. You did build it. So, it's yours. You get to keep it. Morality should be about reason, thinking and being rational and being honest and having integrity and treating people justly. Good people should get rewards. Bad people should get punishments. That's what justice means. It doesn't mean treating everybody the same. It means morality really means taking pride in your own achievements. What's wrong with pride? Pride is a great thing. As long as you've earned it. And pride is meaningless if you haven't earned it. There is no pride in the unearned. That's what people don't understand. Their welfare actually destroys the people receiving it because it destroys their ability to have self-esteem. They know when you give people free goods, free bees, they know they haven't earned it. They know they haven't deserved it. They know they're living off of the backs of other people, off of the work of other people. And that causes them to not have any respect for themselves. Not have any self-esteem. Not have any pride. And as a consequence, they can never be happy. Welfare is not just wrong because it takes my money by force for me. It steals. But welfare is wrong because it destroys the lives of the people who receive it. It makes them dependent. It destroys their self-esteem. It makes it impossible for them to live productive, full, complete, successful lives. So I have very little hope from this administration and these Republicans for actually moving us in any significant way towards free markets in medicine or in anything else. Yes, they'll do better than the Democrats in the sense that the Obamacare, what we call it, Republican care that comes out of the revision will be slightly more freedom oriented than what Obama was and what Democrats would have done. But it's still way, way, way far away from what true free markets would look like. What a real free market healthcare system and healthcare insurance system would look like. All right. Love to hear what you think of all this. What you think about morality. What you think about sacrifice. What you think about being self-interested. What you think about being selfless. And what do you think about Obamacare? What do you think the kind of healthcare system that we should strive towards? What do you think the ideal should and would be? You can call in 312-642-5600. You're listening to your own book show. We'll be right back. Illinois that succeeded in this challenging economic environment. If so, we want to hear about it. 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And you can get more details on the ARI website, ari.ynrand.org. Go to events. Look at March 11th. You can find it there. And yeah, hope all of you come. You can also look, you can also search Building a Future of Reason and Capitalism. There's a C-Vent page where you can register and everything. But it's at the W Chicago City Center on March 11th from 12.30 to 5.30. It's going to be a blast. It's going to be so much fun. And I'm actually going to do this show live from the event in addition to giving some talks and discussing ideas. And yeah, you should all show up. All right. We got Mike on the line who has a problem with Obamacare. Go ahead, Mike. Of course it was Capitalism. And with Obamacare, I believe there's a clause in there for preconditions, people who've had to go heart attack. This helps them in fact that they have a heart attack. A lot of times we'll not take on a person with a heart attack. It doesn't help them. It forces insurance companies to provide them with insurance. It forces insurance companies to provide them with insurance. It's the use of a force of corrosion in order to insurance companies to provide them with insurance with the people who have pre-existing conditions. Is that right? I'm sorry, I can't hear you. Can you hear me okay? Yeah, I can hear you fine. Be better. Okay. So what I said is what ACA does is it forces insurance companies to provide these individuals with insurance. I in Rand's ways they fare Capitalism. It got a lot of a person's name and give them insurance because a person can't give them insurance because they have to have pre-conditioned. I get it. No, I don't think that would be fair because it would still force some insurance companies to give them insurance and I don't believe in force. I don't believe in forcing businesses to do what is not in their self-interest. So my view is, first of all let me say this, in a true free market if we really deregulated insurance and we deregulate healthcare, there would be innovative insurance products that would come about that would deal with the whole pre-existing conditions issue. For example, you would have I can buy a life insurance policy for 30 years and if during those 30 years I get sick it doesn't raise my premiums. I can guarantee a fixed premium through the 30 years. The market has evolved to do that even though when I get sick my chances of dying have gone up and the health life insurance company you would think would want to charge me more but they can't because I have a contract with them. Imagine if when you were born you could buy a long-term health insurance policy maybe even a policy insurance policy for life and that insurance policy was yours, it was portable you would renew it every year but the insurance companies committed in advance to not raising the premium based on your health condition that's a possibility of one product that could be created now it would be expensive because the insurance company would be taking on the risk of people having being sick and so on but the bottom line is this I don't believe in force any kind of force, I don't believe in coercion I believe in lazific capitalism and if some people are not going to get health insurance because they can't afford it because they've got pre-existing conditions whatever the issue is you cannot force other people to pay for their insurance it's tough on them, it's sad what they will rely on is charity what they're going to have to rely on is the hospitals being willing to commit them even though they don't have insurance and treat them you're going to rely on I don't know the united way or some new philanthropic organization that provides them with a subsidy so that they can do so I believe if I believe in a safety net that's voluntary that's provided by us that's provided by your neighbors that's provided by your friends that's provided by your family that's provided by charity that's voluntary I think that's a posture right now because the restriction is on hospitals I agree with you I agree you have to massively deregulate and get rid of everything really appreciate your call we're running to commercial break keep on listening Mike this is a bit of a delay here on the Eaton's this is an inbound between Peterson and Montrose but otherwise it's okay the Kennedy 37 will head to downtown and we're looking at about 26 back out to the airport the Eisenhower is 32 Thorndale to the post office and we're looking at about the 36 back out to the Thorndale Stevenson gets heavy Dan Ryan on 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dot Ayn Rand dot org slash events for all the details ARI dot Ayn Rand dot org slash events intrigued, inspired and possibly even, ain't 560 the answer Mike made a good point in the previous show and that is to move towards free markets all at once to shrug off everything, all the constraints and yeah, it is and I wouldn't argue for just getting rid of all safety net immediately I think we have to phase it out but you see you're never going to achieve that you're never going to phase it out you're never going to actually start moving in that direction unless you set that as your goal unless you set that as your moral political purpose so I say my goal is to get to 100% free market healthcare I don't want Obamacare, I don't want Medicare I don't want Medicaid I want free markets I don't want the government subsidizing I don't want the government subsidizing healthcare subsidizing meals, subsidizing insurance I don't want the government regulating insurance businesses I don't want the government regulating pharmaceutical companies pharmaceutical companies I want a free market and I think it's going to take I'll make something up two terms to get there over the next eight years I am going to systematically systematically reduce subsidies reduce regulations reduce constraint to allow time for a healthy, successful prosperous markets to evolve to develop so that when I eliminate all constraints, all limitations all government will be fine you can't do it all at once, I acknowledge that you can't get rid of Social Security tomorrow I don't believe you should some people completely rely on Social Security they've been told that it's forever and they've completely planned their whole life around it so you take two generations to phase it out but you tell people if you want to be phased out, if you're 20 you're going to get nothing if you're 40 you'll get a little bit if you're 55 you'll get more and if you're 65 maybe we keep it the way it is but if you're 20, zero start saving that's the only way we can ever get sanity in this country it's the only way it's the only way we can actually get to the point where these programs start shrinking we have to set the goal of eliminating them not chinkering not chopping a little bit at the edges actually eliminating them and for that we need to have a confidence we need to be able to say free markets are good they are moral they are just why are they good, why are they moral, why are they just because they leave the individual free to pursue his own values free of the burden of his neighbors he can choose to take on that burden free of the burden on him free of the burden of his neighbors free of the burden of government free of the controls, the regulations free to choose his own path in life because the purpose of life is not to sacrifice the purpose of life is not to be selfless the purpose of life is to live and to live we need to be free we need to be able to make choices for ourselves when I go out and make money, when I make $100,000 or $50,000 or whatever you make it's yours by what right by what moral right do people just take it away from you by what moral right do they decide that they know how to spend your money better than you do by what right do they decide that your money is better spent on giving insurance to somebody with an existing condition than it is for you to send your kids to a college or to a good private school or to buy them food or to buy them nice sneakers it's nobody's business what I spend my money on and it's my money and the government takes it and I want that to stop I don't know, I'm asking for a lot I guess too much Iran, you're too radical I know, I know but this is what America used to be the government did not redistribute our wealth in the 19th century the government didn't get involved they didn't want to live your life for the most part they made mistakes, we had slavery and other mistakes but for the most part they left us alone you know what, it was the greatest boom economic boom in human history and people flooded into this country because it was so free and so wonderful and so great to live in and we didn't resent immigrants because we weren't subsidizing the immigrants so we weren't paying them welfare to come here because there was no welfare so I say eliminate the welfare state eliminate entitlements, now again it takes time you have to phase them out but you have to know where you're heading and you have to convince the people that where you're heading is a good thing and I don't see any political will to do that I don't see any political leadership for this agenda and that makes me sad all right, you're listening to your one book show you know if you want to chime in on you know the welfare state should we eliminate completely should we keep a safety net a public safety net, a government safety net should we continue to regulate businesses as much as we do today 312-642-5600 312-642-5600 you can get in the conversation what do you think about the ethical code that says that your moral responsibility in life is to sacrifice I say that's evil and it puts me in conflict with almost all religion it puts me in conflict with most philosophy professors I say your moral obligation in life your moral obligation, your ethical obligation in life is to live to figure out how to live successfully to pursue the values that are necessary to be successful in life you get one shot at this one life it's immoral if you don't make the most of it if you don't live life to the fullest if you don't attain flourishing that in me that in my view is sad and you know if that involves as it does sometimes helping other people, go for it but don't force me to help people I don't want to help don't tell me what my value should be alright listening to your one book show right back after this messages and take a call she takes these gems and weaves them together with commentary and original interviews the topics of these podcast 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can I cannot do and pulling a gun to tell me that and that's what government does government uses a gun to tell me what I can I cannot do and I don't like that okay what I don't like for to give them it's not welfare unemployment and social security that are bankrupting the country oh it is the size of our government and the cost of its employees it is I mean I agree with you about its employees and the size of it which is nutty but what's bankrupting America and you can run the numbers on this what's bankrupting America unequivocally is Medicare Medicare is will consume every tax dollar raised within the next 10 years every single dollar raised will go to Medicare 30,000 plus depending right no so security is a huge negative starting in about a year or two it will increase the deficit constantly so security is in a massive email pyramid scheme which transfers wealth from young people to young people how can it cost us money when it's got $2.7 trillion in the bank it doesn't because that $2.7 trillion was spent by the wonderful government it was already spent so what they have in the bank are IOU's that the federal government has written that the government owes so security $2.7 trillion but it should pay it yeah but it can't because it can only way can pay it is to raise taxes on young people or to borrow money to raise taxes on future generations so any way you look at it it's a massive redistribution of wealth from young people to old people and it's unbelievably immoral it's a pyramid scheme it always was a pyramid scheme it's just now with the baby boomers retiring we see it ah I'm fine with the government paying the debts but remember what is government government is me and you if we take taxes we are the government the government all the government has is the ability to steal our money and redistribute it so what you're saying is the way to pay it back the $2.7 billion in debt is to steal more money from us so that we can shift that money to people who paid into social security system either way anyway you cut this it's ridiculous and it's immoral by whom by whom is it owed who is the united states government who funds the united states we're gonna have to fund it yeah I know and that's wrong and that's awful they should have spent it to begin with and this was inevitable in the structure of social security as I said before social security is a pyramid scheme pyramid schemes always fail they are a disaster and that's what's happening with social security and all these schemes are wrong they're bad they're all thanks for the call really appreciate it but we're literally running out of time 20 seconds or so look my broader point is this not your life what you want is to make choices for yourself and not have others dictated my my objection to government is the fact that they cause they use force to force me to do things I do not want you've been listening to your own book show come back next week we will challenge everything you believe again then talk to you soon thanks Doug see you sometime hopefully they'll fix the technical stuff