{"id":9482,"date":"2009-08-10T15:28:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T22:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9482"},"modified":"2009-08-10T15:32:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T22:32:15","slug":"it-is-time-for-a-new-civil-rights-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9482\/it-is-time-for-a-new-civil-rights-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"It is time for a new Civil Rights Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing all the fuss over Doug Quance&#8217;s post about <a title=\"A Governmental Takeover of Real Estate Brokerages\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9472\" target=\"_blank\">A Governmental Takeover of Real Estate Brokerages<\/a>, I thought a more thorough answer from my perspective to his question might be appropriate.\u00a0 Last week, a couple of sentences from a superb article by <strong><a title=\"Yaron Brook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aynrand.org\/site\/News2?page=NewsArticle&amp;id=5151&amp;news_iv_ctrl=1181\" target=\"_blank\">Yaron Brook<\/a><\/strong> at the Ayn Rand  Center literally twisted at my thoughts.\u00a0 The sentences are:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Rights,      as the Founders conceived them, are not claims to economic goods, but to      freedoms of action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>The      rights of some cannot require the coercion and sacrifice of others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Those sentences are basic premises of the Constitution, of human dignity and of what freedom and liberty are based on.<\/p>\n<p>But apply those thoughts to the current maelstrom swirling about health care, and one&#8217;s &#8220;right&#8221; to health care has a wholly different meaning.\u00a0 In Mr. Brook&#8217;s own eloquence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The solution to this ongoing crisis is to recognize that the very idea of a &#8220;right&#8221; to health care is a perversion. There can be no such thing as a &#8220;right&#8221; to products or services created by the effort of others, and this most definitely includes medical products and services. Rights, as the Founders conceived them, are not claims to economic goods, but to freedoms of action.<\/p>\n<p>You are free to see a doctor and pay him for his services&#8211;no one may forcibly prevent you from doing so. But you do not have a &#8220;right&#8221; to force the doctor to treat you without charge or to force others to pay for your treatment. The rights of some cannot require the coercion and sacrifice of others.<\/p>\n<p>Real and lasting solutions to our health care problems require a rejection of the entitlement mentality in favor of a proper conception of rights. This would provide the moral basis for breaking the regulatory chains stifling the medical industry; for lifting the tax and regulatory incentives fueling our dysfunctional, employer-based insurance system; for inaugurating a gradual phase-out of all government health care programs, especially Medicare and Medicaid; and for restoring a true free market in medical care. &#8211; <a title=\"Why Are We Moving Toward Socialized Medicine?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aynrand.org\/site\/News2?page=NewsArticle&amp;id=23957&amp;news_iv_ctrl=2401\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.aynrand.org<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our entire national debate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9482\/it-is-time-for-a-new-civil-rights-movement\/#more-9482\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing all the fuss over Doug Quance&#8217;s post about A Governmental Takeover of Real Estate Brokerages, I thought a more thorough answer from my perspective to his question might be appropriate.\u00a0 Last week, a couple of sentences from a superb article by Yaron Brook at the Ayn Rand Center literally twisted at my thoughts.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"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":[24,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":703,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/703\/charmed-im-sure\/","url_meta":{"origin":9482,"position":0},"title":"Charmed, I&#8217;m sure","author":"Richard Riccelli","date":"November 28, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"DC: A very charming Georgetown house in the very center of the east village... 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