{"id":14596,"date":"2011-05-13T08:14:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T15:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14596"},"modified":"2011-05-13T08:14:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T15:14:27","slug":"senator-rand-paul-the-claim-of-a-right-to-health-care-implies-a-belief-in-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14596\/senator-rand-paul-the-claim-of-a-right-to-health-care-implies-a-belief-in-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Rand Paul: The claim of a &#8220;right&#8221; to health care implies a belief in slavery."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about the Tea Party, it&#8217;s a small victory just to have words like these enunciated on the floor of Congress:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u_HVyoT2PgM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is Ayn Rand from <em>Atlas Shrugged<\/em> making the same argument:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I quit when medicine was placed under State control some years ago,&#8221; said Dr. Hendricks. &#8220;Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? <em>That<\/em> was what I could not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything &#8212; except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the &#8216;welfare&#8217; of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, but &#8216;to serve.&#8217; That a man&#8217;s willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards &#8212; never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness at which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind &#8212; yet what is it they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14596\/senator-rand-paul-the-claim-of-a-right-to-health-care-implies-a-belief-in-slavery\/#more-14596\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about the Tea Party, it&#8217;s a small victory just to have words like these enunciated on the floor of Congress: This is Ayn Rand from Atlas Shrugged making the same argument: &#8220;I quit when medicine was placed under State control some years ago,&#8221; said Dr. Hendricks. &#8220;Do you know what it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-group-therapy","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":77,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/77\/without-the-man-in-the-middle-there-might-just-be-the-void\/","url_meta":{"origin":14596,"position":0},"title":"Without the man in the middle, there might just be the void&#8230;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 8, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"In The Fountainhead,the best novel ever written about the real estate industry, Ayn Rand said:The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line -- it's a middleman. 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Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Flourishing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Flourishing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/flourishing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2024,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2024\/atlas-shrugged-is-50-years-old-today-all-work-is-an-act-of-creating-and-comes-from-the-same-source-from-an-inviolate-capacity-to-see-through-ones-own-eyes\/","url_meta":{"origin":14596,"position":2},"title":"Atlas Shrugged is 50 years old today: &#8220;All work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through one&#8217;s own eyes&#8230;&#8221;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is philospher David Kelley in the Wall Street Journal. I think BloodhoundBlog presents a nice reflection of this argument, a joyous, fearless, unapologetic pursuit of new ideas.Economists have known for a long time that profits are an external measure of the value created by business enterprise. Rand portrayed the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Egoism in Action&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Egoism in Action","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/egoism-in-action\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12023,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12023\/rand-pauls-take-on-private-property-rights-is-correct-and-daring-to-tell-unfamiliar-uncomfortable-truths-to-voters-is-laudable\/","url_meta":{"origin":14596,"position":3},"title":"Rand Paul&#8217;s take on private property rights is correct &#8212; and daring to tell unfamiliar, uncomfortable truths to voters is laudable.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Well. I'm thinking that \"Everybody Draw Mohammed Day\" has brought us a nearly universal display of cowardice from the RE.net. If I am mistaken in this, I will happily amend my error with a link and a courtly bow. But I expect there is even more room for quivering, quibbling,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Mother&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3062,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3062\/trulia-widgets-truliamazing-trojan-horses\/","url_meta":{"origin":14596,"position":4},"title":"Trulia Widgets: Truliamazing Trojan Horse(s)","author":"Eric Bramlett","date":"May 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Much ado about Galen Ward's Truliamazing Tricks of the Trade! Greg has already written a fantastic post about the reaction, so I won't spend any time rehashing. An interesting side note that has been brought up by a few commentators is why Trulia is really kicking butt in the SERPs.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Real Estate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11470,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11470\/splendorquest-should-we-celebrate-john-galt-day-on-june-1st\/","url_meta":{"origin":14596,"position":5},"title":"SplendorQuest: Should we celebrate John Galt Day on June 1st?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I wrote this coming on four years ago, one of my last posts to PresenceOfMind.net, my philosophical\/political\/literary home on the web. 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