THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE ACT--Analysis:

Freedom is non-negotiable. Freedom in America must be restored and made absolute. Freedom is, that Black and White.

The American Health Care Act, Freedom, and Human Rights in Hispanic

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. - John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877) Repeals Obamacare taxes - Obamacare was “legalized” by SCOTUS on the principle that it is a tax, that it would have been an unconstitutional mandate otherwise. Not paying the tax, as not paying your income taxes, results in a penalty. Repeals Obamacare mandate - government can no longer tell consumers what to buy, where to buy it, or FORCE them to buy it.

Foggy metaphors, sloppy images, unfocused poetry, and equivocations—Such as “A hungry man is not free”—do not alter the fact that only political power is the power of physical coercion. - Ayn Rand Having a choice to act, or not act; to buy or not to buy, is otherwise known as freedom. Not paying for another person’s electric bills, crack addiction, abortion and sex habits, and health care, is also known as freedom. Rips out taxpayer-funded abortion services - not the government’s business - from coerced Planned Parenthood funding by taxpayers whose religious beliefs preclude otherwise. It is known as religious freedom. Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, or freedom from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity. It means freedom from the coercive power of the state‚Äîand nothing else. - Ayn Rand Opens choice for insurers to insure across state lines - and that is why the insurance lobby is dead set against it! That policy is known as capitalism, and the insurers oppose it because like the Mafia, they defend their protected-by-government territories as guaranteed drug-dealing Safe Spaces.

Opens access across state lines for purchasers: A balanced view. Takes the federal government out of the health care business, because other than for preventing fraud that would harm the general public, it is not their business. Reforms malpractice insurance: prices are to be made affordable by making payouts rational and limited, to allow for health practitioners to conduct services and business, rather than having to leave the profession to the detriment of the national interest - what liberals call “the common good.” Renegotiates drug prices in line with costs to develop and market and with prices charged to other nations. Neither should be considered price control or a violation of free enterprise, Rather, as licensed businesses in medicine on the first principle “Thou Shalt Do No Harm,” these reforms are ripoff control to allow for profitability without allowing for criminality, or obstructing access to decent health care (I am aware these points are arguable.) Creates tax vouchers according to age, income, and risk. Summing up the problem: Obamacare is a utopian exercise in magical thinking characterized by the belief that thinking or wishing something can cause it to occur. It is supported by a rigid universalist and utopian ideology, and that is why it has failed. It ignored the basic rules of economics such as risks tied to premiums. It violated political economics and “the will of The People,” coerced insurers to insure and consumers to purchase a product they did not want and in many cases, didn’t need. It transferred the wealth of individuals to concerns having no concerns about health care. H.Res. 676 in a 2015 lawsuit prevented Obamacare from being funded out of the public till to save itself and bail out insurers. The high court found a violation of the U.S. constitution when Obama, facing the implosion of the monster he created—ObamaCare - demanded to spend public money not allotted by congress.

The American Health Care Act - Not Enough! “But a funny thing happens when you convince yourself you’re right: Logic cedes to psychological trickery. You form a false reality. You refuse to believe you’re wrong. You begin to ignore contradictory facts. And before you know it, you’re in the middle of a rainstorm in Wyoming, wondering how you got there.” - Fenn’s Story Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on the individual, man’s survival requires that those who think be free of the interference of those who don’t. Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man’s mind. - Ayn Rand A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls; it does not sacrifice its knowledge, its view of the truth, to anyone’s opinions, threats, wishes, plans, or “welfare.” Such a mind may be hampered by others, it may be silenced, proscribed, imprisoned, or destroyed; it cannot be forced. A gun is not an argument. - Ayn Rand 2014, 2015, 2016 has escalated numbers. Patients can’t pay; insurers have left. Humana latest insurer to exit Obamacare exchanges Replacement is NOT the Fed’s business! Insurance company bailouts are not the FED’s business - and that is exactly what Obamacare tried to accomplish until congress interceded as cited above. The health insurers, once by one, then left the insured and the nation, holding the bag. Providing health care to illegal aliens is not the taxpayer’s obligation - and that is exactly what Obamacare did - and the American Health Care Act proposes to do. Buying ANY benefit or service is an individual’s right and choice - and not obligatory in any free society. Conversely, not paying for another’s operates under the same principle. Giving, or coercing benefits or rights to groups cannot pass constitutional muster, as groups and special interests have no rights under law, not even in Hispanic, and cannot be coerced to fund individuals. A “right” is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man’s freedom of action in a social context. - Ayn Rand Transgender toilets following the defunding of the U.S. Military and the purging of the Pentagon high staff, have become unfashionable the day a man dressed up like a woman wearing spike heels and lipstick, sidled up next to this writer at a public urinal. Just a joke but the imagery explains it. Contracts between insurers, businesses and individuals/groups are their own business, not the U.S. government’s. Conflicts arising out of contracts are adjudicated in court. If one upholds freedom, one must uphold man’s individual rights; if one upholds man’s individual rights, one must uphold his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to the pursuit of his own happiness—which means: one must uphold a political system that guarantees and protects these rights. - Ayn Rand Do not be misled . . . by an old collectivist trick which goes like this: there is no absolute freedom anyway, since you are not free to murder; society limits your freedom when it does not permit you to kill; therefore, society holds the right to limit your freedom in any manner it sees fit; therefore, drop the delusion of freedom—freedom is whatever society decides it is. It is not society, nor any social right, that forbids you to kill—îbut the inalienable individual right of another man to live. This is not a “compromise” between two rights—but a line of division that preserves both rights untouched. The division is not derived from an edict of society—but from your own inalienable individual right. The definition of this limit is not set arbitrarily by society—but is implicit in the definition of your own right. Within the sphere of your own rights, your freedom is absolute. - Ayn Rand, writing in Spanglish Your freedom to choose your health care plans, where and how you live, and not to be coerced to pay benefits to others to whom you owe nothing, as long as you don’t infringe on the freedoms of others to do likewise, is absolute. Providing for or “replacing” an entitlement is not freedom, just because, taking Rand’s words: “society decides it is.” It is the violation of freedom and basic human rights—one’s choice not to participate. Freedom is non-negotiable. Freedom in America must be restored and made absolute. Freedom is, that Black and White. For “Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”



Andrew G. Benjamin -- Bio and Archives Andrew G. Benjamin is a real estate and tax specialist, equities trader, a former economic advisor to New York city mayor Rudy Giuliani; serving on the transition team’s Subcommittee on Taxation, Finance and the Budget. Benjamin also wrote extensively about intelligence, economic issues, the Mideast, terrorism, technology, high end audio and transnational politics.

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