We support a swift and full repeal of the Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare), an establishment of a free market in medicine, and a strict legal separation of state and sick bed.

Medical decisions should be made by patients in concert with their physicians, with government at all levels utterly excluded by law. Medical payments should be made by patients, by their private health insurance companies, and/or by voluntary charity organizations established to help poor persons with medical costs, again with government legally excluded. We understand that American health care science and medicine is acknowledged, by physicians around the world, as the world’s finest. As but one example, vastly more English, French, and German men die of prostate cancer than do American men.

We acknowledge that a major problem with American medical care is that it has become prodigiously expensive. At the same time, we must recognize that the rise in prices has nothing to do with free market medicine. The United States is no longer a capitalist system and has not been so for at least as far back as FDR’s New Deal in the 1930s. It must be understood that the United States is, and has long been, a mixed economy—an unstable amalgam of capitalism and socialism, of freedom and government controls, of individual rights and statism.

The two questions, in logic, are: Which part of the mixture is responsible for the superb medical care? And which part of the amalgam is responsible for the skyrocketing cost?

We recognize that, in any field, intellectual advance is wrought by free-thinking minds operating under conditions of political-economic liberty; while intellectual disintegration, technological stagnation and social entropy are the results of stifling government ; this is as true of MRI machines, CT scans, arthroscopic surgery, illness-curing pharmaceuticals, and advanced cancer treatment as it is of superlative novels, beautiful musical compositions, breakthroughs in theoretical science, and such pioneering technologies as airplanes, automobiles, the electric light, personal computers, and the Internet. We can say with confidence that it is the capitalist element of America’s mixed economy—not the socialist element—that is responsible for the country’s superlative medical care potential. For a concrete example of the stark contrasts between a society that embraces liberty over one that doesn’t one need only look at satellite images of North and South Korea at night.

For the socialist elements of America’s mixed economy in medicine we point mainly to the third-party payer system, backed and enabled by government intervention in the healthcare field. This system has immensely boosted demand for medical services without generating a corresponding increase in supply. It is this increase in demand relative to supply that has caused massive price spikes.

As a first step towards reducing government medical intervention, third party payers, and astronomic healthcare cost, We support a gradual but full phasing out of Medicare and Medicaid, over a period of ten years, giving responsible individuals sufficient time to make alternative arrangements to pay medical costs, and for private medical charity organizations to form. By phasing out these programs we not only eliminate the moral issue of rights violations inherent in their upkeep, we also eliminate the massive corruption that tends to accompany all such programs; in this case $100 Billion in losses, annually, due to fraud or unnecessary treatment according to the United States Department of Justice.

We hold that the mind’s unrestricted liberation in a free medical marketplace will enable the next wave of bio-medical advances, including ever more effective pharmaceuticals, pioneering surgical techniques, disease-detecting technology, as well as other life-saving developments. We further maintain that a free medical marketplace, by upholding the responsibility of individuals for their own medical expenses, and eliminating an economically disastrous third-party payer system, will immensely reduce demand for medical services, thereby immensely reducing prices, making quality medical care once again affordable for the overwhelming preponderance of U.S. citizens.