Ayn Rand in Ayn Rand Nation, by Gary Weiss

On Health Care: Imposing Medicare regiments and destroys medical science

Writing in the January 1963 edition of the Objectivist Newsletter, Rand derided 'humanitarian' projects that, as she saw it, we're to be "imposed by political means--that is,,by force--on an unlimited number of human beings. 'Medicare' is an example of such a project," she said. ' 'Isn't ÿit desirable that the aged should have medical care in times of illness?' Its advocates clamor. [That] hides such facts as the enslavement and, therefore, the destruction of medical science, the regimentation and disintegration of all medical practice." Source: Ayn Rand Nation, by Gary Weiss, p. 61 Jan 1, 1963

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