Thread: Paying For Health Care

Originally Posted by Syme

Not sure what you mean. A volunteer soldier, and a doctor in a UHC country, are both willingly entering professions where they know that they will work for the government in order to provide services to the public. Unless the soldier is a draftee, or the doctor was forcibly enrolled in med school, their labor is not being extracted from them against their will. Whether someone else "has a right to their labor" strikes me as immaterial, since the labor is being voluntarily given. UnreasonablyReasonable seems to be laboring under the misapprehension that if we have UHC, government thugs will force doctors to work against their will because someone else "has a right to their labor".

I figured UnreasonablyReasonable was referring to the means the government uses to pay these doctors and soldiers, i.e. confiscation of property from private individuals.

Those who choose to work aren't being coerced, but it's easy to argue that the money that pays them has been.

And maybe you could read something into the sewing up of the market which happens with UHC but that'd be a bit tenuous.