III. Domestic Ills
Health Care
Recent decades have witnessed growing government involvement
in the health care system. That involvement has led to
bureaucratic top-down management, rapidly escalating prices,
costly regulations, the criminalization of the practice of
medicine, and a host of other problems. None of these problems
was prevalent prior to the time when government began to
increase its involvement. We believe that government involvement
is the principal cause of many of the problems we face in the
health care system today. Therefore we favor restoring and
reviving a free market health care system.
We advocate a complete separation of medicine from the state.
We recognize the right of individuals to determine free from
government interference and its harmful side effects the level
of insurance they want, the level of care they want, the care
providers they want, the medicines and treatments they will use,
and all other aspects of their medical care. We oppose any
government restriction or funding of medical or scientific
research, including cloning.
We support an end to government-provided health insurance and
health care. Both of these functions can be more effectively
provided in the private sector. The high cost of health
insurance is largely due to government's excessive regulation of
the industry. Government's role in any kind of insurance should
only be to enforce contracts when necessary, not to dictate to
insurance companies and consumers which kinds of insurance
contracts they may voluntarily agree upon.