Rand Paul Want Universal Healthcare? You want Slavery!

[frigidmagi]

Mediaite

[quote]Republican Senator Rand Paul is proving himself to be a loud and persistent critic of President Obama and all of his policies. Speaking at a Senate hearing yesterday, Paul expressed his strong disapproval of universal healthcare, even repeatedly comparing the right to healthcare as being similar to slavery.

Paul explains that anyone who believes that every citizen is entitled to a right to healthcare also believes in slavery. Paul elaborates on this logical leap:

“It means that you’re going to enslave not only me [as a physician], but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses. If you have a right to their services, basically, once you imply a belief in a right to someone’s services — do you have a right to plumbing? . . . Do you have a right to beat down my door with the police, escort me away and force me to take care of you? That’s ultimately what the right to free healthcare would be.â€

[SirNitram]

Slavery is being regularly trivilized by these bozos. I'm not even shocked anymore.

[The Minx]

Just another silly politician.

Anyway, radical libertarians believe that government programs like universal healthcare are bad in part because they involve coercion, specifically because they are paid for with tax money. In other words, it is the taxation which is bad, and the healthcare workers are receiving money taken under duress, not that the healthcare workers are slaves somehow. At least, I haven't heard that one before.

More moderate libertarians oppose government programs because in general, they tend to be less efficient than private ones.