Comments on: Origin and Rise of Compulsory Medicine http://archive.mises.org/12342/origin-and-rise-of-compulsory-medicine/ Proceeding Ever More Boldly Against Evil Thu, 23 May 2013 13:33:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bill Miller http://archive.mises.org/12342/origin-and-rise-of-compulsory-medicine/comment-page-1/#comment-682590 Bill Miller Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:30:07 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/12342/origin-and-rise-of-compulsory-medicine/#comment-682590 I think I heard something recently about someone who was instrumental in establishing the Canadian system suggesting that there should be market oriented reforms (such as allowing people to buy their own, private, insurance), but I can’t remember who it was. Anybody here know?

]]> By: James Elliott http://archive.mises.org/12342/origin-and-rise-of-compulsory-medicine/comment-page-1/#comment-682264 James Elliott Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:55:40 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/12342/origin-and-rise-of-compulsory-medicine/#comment-682264 While thinking about Good Friday this week and then reading your article I am reminded about how long this has been going on. When faced with a choice between Jesus, who preached and lived an ideology of intellectual and spiritual freedom from Roman slavery, and Barrabas, a robber, the crowd asked for the robber. Apparently freedom has been more threatening than material loss to the masses (and those who control them) for a long, long time.

]]> By: John B http://archive.mises.org/12342/origin-and-rise-of-compulsory-medicine/comment-page-1/#comment-682162 John B Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:52:36 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/12342/origin-and-rise-of-compulsory-medicine/#comment-682162 Congratulations on this very interesting article that perhaps could only have been written by someone who has studied in part outside the controlled education system?
It leads me to think: The true kings, meaning those who wield the real power (or just, power) of our day are largely unseen as such. The quiet men whose bidding the politicians do. The (visible) monarchs of our day are now part of aristocracy of old, against which the kings ally themselves with the plebs, in order to defeat. Hence the controlled and controlling worker’s paradise against the evil capitalist bosses. Into which control comes, as Melchior Palyi indicates, that which concerns us most intimately, our health.If the effective aristocracy of our day are all those from the monarchs to the lower bourgoisie, who are the kings?

]]> By: The Survivalist Forum » Blog Archive » Origin and Rise of Compulsory Medicine http://archive.mises.org/12342/origin-and-rise-of-compulsory-medicine/comment-page-1/#comment-682156 The Survivalist Forum » Blog Archive » Origin and Rise of Compulsory Medicine Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:11:42 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/12342/origin-and-rise-of-compulsory-medicine/#comment-682156 [...] Comment on the blog. [...]

]]> By: Ohhh Henry http://archive.mises.org/12342/origin-and-rise-of-compulsory-medicine/comment-page-1/#comment-682144 Ohhh Henry Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:51:57 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/12342/origin-and-rise-of-compulsory-medicine/#comment-682144 As a committee report on health insurance of the Canadian House of Commons put it (March 16, 1943): “During the early years of Hitler’s regime, the government’s medical program was looked upon by many observers as one of the greatest props of the totalitarian state.”

That reminds me of something. The future prime minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau was described in a biography as being at the time of WWII a fascist and anti-semite and he is known on at least one occasion to dress up in a German uniform and ride around Montreal on his motorcycle (as a “joke”). Fast forward to 1983 when the Canada Health Act was introduced in parliament by the government of … you guessed it …

]]> By: Sean http://archive.mises.org/12342/origin-and-rise-of-compulsory-medicine/comment-page-1/#comment-682074 Sean Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:30:46 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/12342/origin-and-rise-of-compulsory-medicine/#comment-682074 Good article.

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