Libertarian Healthcare

[1edwood79]

I'm a libertarian nurse. Ask me anything.

[Jensmom7, BSN, RN]

This makes me sad. But pile it on.

Don't mind us. We're just the Knights Who Say "Ni!"

Until we become The Knights Who Say "Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Pitang-Zoom-Boing!"

Sorry, OP, I really don't have any questions about Libertarians. I need to do some research because I don't know what I don't know.

[ambr46]

For some reason, I read the title wrong and thought this was a thread about healthcare taking place in libraries (similar to "Minute Clinics" at CVS).

I did too. Ha ha.

[Dogen]

My view is that the system were are instituting now has no way to assess the value of the services and products being used because of the elimination of market cues. This is what causes economic disasters like the one unraveling in Venezuela right now. Bread lines in the Soviet Union is another result of this kind of planning.

I have questions!

1. What makes market indicators a better basis for making healthcare policy decisions than, say, morality?

1a. Are market indicators synonymous with morals? That is, can a thing be beneficial to the markets and also wrong or bad, or is a thing good because it's beneficial to the markets?

1aI. If the answer to 1a is that a thing can be good for markets and also bad, how do libertarians maintain a sense of morality within unfettered markets?

1aII. If the answer to 1a is that being good for the markets makes a thing good, then it would be morally right to stop providing medical care for old people, right?

2. Are individuals moral enough to exist within a libertarian system without taking advantage of one another?

3. What is the libertarian perspective of the proposition laid out by Hobbes in Leviathan that the existence of governments is based on a social contract, wherein individuals give up certain natural rights (such as the right, which animals exert, to kill indiscriminately to survive) in order to gain certain benefits?

3a. Why are defense and infrastructure so important that we should give up our natural rights to ensure we have them, but access to healthcare isn't?

[lavenderskies, BSN]

As a libertarian nurse where do you stand on mass vaccination programs and infant circumcision.

[nursingaround1]

Is it correct that the Libertarian view is that I can do whatever I want, and anything goes, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else?

[madwife2002, BSN, RN]

Please stay on topic

[Farawyn]

OP, where are you?

[heron, ASN, RN]

Trying to figure out the quote feature?

[AcuteHD]

Why aren't you a party member? I think OP has a man crush on Ron Swanson and wants to be a libertarian too. Not that I would blame him, Ron Swanson is awesome.

PS:

This makes me sad. But pile it on.

I shouldn't have referenced a deleted post from another thread.

[AcuteHD]

Go Dogen! I mean, isn't it nice that Dogen is here to make us look all classy and stuff?

[Farawyn]

Go Dogen! I mean, isn't it nice that Dogen is here to make us look all classy and stuff?

It's a hard job, but someone's gotta do it.

[AcuteHD]

One of the key concepts of libertarianism is the Non Aggression Principle. This is the idea that no individual should be forced, coerced, conned or stolen from by anybody, including government.

I never said we shouldn't pay taxes...

Again, how do you reconcile these two statements?