The Dangers of Socialized Medicine [Paperback]

Jacob G. Hornberger (Author, Editor), Richard M. Ebeling (Author, Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1994

This book exposes the dangers that Americans face with the prospect of socialized medicine. Bringing together the thoughts of twelve eminent advocates of the free-market philosophy, The Dangers of Socialized Medicine explains in an easily readable, well-reasoned way how government policies have caused America's health-care crisis and why a complete separation of health care and the state is the only real, long-term solution. This book prescribes the tough medicine that Americans need to take to achieve a healthy, prosperous, and free society.

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Review

"If only the pen were mightier than the sword, The Dangers of Socialized Medicine would be the perfect antidote against the Clintonian poison of medical socialism." -- Dr. Thomas S. Szasz, author of Cruel Compassion

About the Author

Jacob G. Hornberger (co-editor) is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, a libertarian foundation in Fairfax, Virginia. He is the co-editor (along with Richard M. Ebeling) of The Failure of America's Foreign Wars; The Tyranny of Gun Control; and The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration. His editorials have appeared in the Washington Post; Las Vegas Tribune Journal; El Nuevo Miami Herald; La Prensa San Diego; and others.

Richard M. Ebeling (co-editor) is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, and serves as vice president of academic affairs for The Future of Freedom Foundation.

Product Details

• Paperback: 87 pages
• Publisher: Future of Freedom Foundation (February 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964044706
• ISBN-13: 978-0964044708
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,440,364 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF). FFF's mission is to advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government.

Mr. Hornberger was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at The Foundation for Economic Education, publisher of The Freeman.

In 1989, Mr. Hornberger established The Future of Freedom Foundation. He is a regular writer for FFF's monthly journal Freedom Daily, writes a daily blog, and other commentaries. His editorials have appeared in the Washington Post, Charlotte Observer, La Presna San Diego, El Nuevo Miami Herald, and many others, both in the United States and in Latin America.

Mr. Hornberger has delivered speeches and engaged in debates about free-market principles with groups all over the United States, as well as Canada, England, Europe, and Latin America, including Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Argentina.

He has also advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country as well as on Fox News' Neil Cavuto and Greta van Susteren shows. Recently, he has regularly appeared as a commentator on Fox News' legal commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano's Internet-based show Freedom Watch.

Mr. Hornberger is co-editor of five books that have been published by The Future of Freedom Foundation (www.fff.org).

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4 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The case for a complete free market in medicine, April 5, 2001

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Ross Nordeen (Orlando, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dangers of Socialized Medicine (Paperback)

Published by the Future of Freedom Foundation, this slim collection of essays on government intervention in medicine makes an excellent case for a complete free market in health care. Published in 1994, many of the chapters specifically address the horrendous Clinton Health Care Plan, which fortunately never even made it to a floor vote in Congress.

2 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Why are we afraid of Universal Healthcare?, December 22, 2007

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Young Judge - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Dangers of Socialized Medicine (Paperback)

This book presents a very ignorant, shallow, and misleading view of universal healthcare. When people make decisions about their health based on their finances, the incentives encourage less care, not more care. If the U.S. humanized medicine and made it truly available (and not a money issue), people would get preventive care. The fact is that under our current system with private insurers, many people have insurance and still can't afford to seek preventative care because of premiums, deductibles and coinsurance. As for crack heads, most uninsured Americans are not crack heads and crack heads typically get free healthcare at the emergency room or in jail. As a professional and high income earner, I resent paying such high premiums and coinsurance to ensure that my HMO's CEO gets a multi-million dollar bonus and insured people like myself receive denials. This is not a liberal democrat vs. conservative republican issue; this is an American problem.

The fear mongers like Jacob Hornberger are blurring the issue in an attempt to keep Americans in a state of demoralized, debt-ridden fear. The fact is that other first world countries have universal medicine and democracy; what kind of message are we as Americans sending to others when we send our sick into debt because they need an operation? The reality is that it is commonplace for those with insurance to battle with their HMOs, PPOs, etc. over claims and procedures. My HMO should not be making my healthcare decisions; how could they possibly have my best interests at heart when they are concerned with their profit margin?