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Universal Health Care Isn't Worth Our Freedom - Thomas Szasz

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The US health-care system now rests on the principle that, although individuals own their own our bodies, the community or state ought to be responsible for paying the cost of repairing them. This is for the ostensibly noble purpose of redistributing the potentially ruinous expense of the medical care of unfortunate individuals.

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