Home » Forums » Daily Paul Liberty Forum

Ron Paul & Health Care

Submitted by phillydilly on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 07:11
in
0 votes

Hey everyone,
New to the forum here with a quick question.
I've been following and supporting Paul for a while now, and with the Nov 5th event, it seems he's just about to break into the next tier.

I was talking about some of his policies and was asked about health care. It turned out I didn't have a great answer, nor did I find one that satisfied me on his campaign website.

Can anyone give me a breakdown, or provide a link to one, with Paul's health care positions?
Thanks

»

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

Thanks for the links. I

Submitted by phillydilly on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 08:10.

Thanks for the links. I found some other ones I'll list below.
On a side note, I don't know if this site is officially affiliated with Paul's campaign site, but if someone here is, they REALLY need to bump up the health care info. If Paul is going to make that top tier, he has to address all issues, and health care is going to be a big one. Right now, there is almost nothing about what he will do on his official site.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul339.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjuEdJ0DAGc

http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/playerhealth08.cfm?...

http://dartreview.com/archives/2007/10/14/ron_paul_md_speaks...

Check this link

Submitted by EotS. on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 07:55.

Hey Philly,

Half way through this video, Ron talks about health care. The first half is about veterans benefits, health care related as well.

There is a series of 5 or 6 videos from this interview, all very good.

This'll get you started.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfwuSKJ1PJg

Health care

Submitted by andy on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 07:43.

Ron Paul seems to be quite free-market. What I have heard till now
- less licensing requirements thus allowing more people practice medicine
- start getting out of the medicare/medicaid, while allowing people who are already in that program to use it
- less regulation overall

As for the medicine problem, there is a very interesting podcast here. Not exactly RP related, but it makes you see the problem from the free market perspective and gives you some arguments against the silly "free market medicine is expensive argument" RP said something along the lines that in 60's even the poor ones did get treatment and they were billed the minimum, while today the Medicaid(government) gets billed the maximum for the same services.