The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—otherwise known as ObamaCare—turns two years old today. I do not want the date to pass without stating that I oppose ObamaCare—100 percent—on principle because health care, as Leonard Peikoff argued in 1993, is not a right.
Under that fraudulent morality, this legal monstrosity forces insurers to cover sick people, controlling terms, prices and treatment and forces Americans to carry insurance, which it destroys as a profession as it destroys medicine as a profession—at a projected cost of $1 trillion. As a nation, we give up everything – our autonomy as doctors, patients, insurers assessing risk, pharmacists, drug companies – for what the “O” in the President’s self-consciously calculated signature, which resembles a zero with a slash through it, delivers: nothing.
The law completes America’s transition to government-controlled health care. As the Washington Post concludes in its analysis: “Insurers will increasingly resemble well-regulated public utilities, with … new constraints on their rates and profits.” Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi infamously declared that Congress had to pass ObamaCare to find out what was in it. On the law’s second year mark, we know that what’s in it is poison. We should reject, kill and repeal this law. In the meantime, each freedom-loving person must stand up and speak out and say: I Oppose ObamaCare. I just did. If you agree, and I say this as an activist for individual rights, it is your turn.