“[T]he very idea that health care — or any good provided by others — is a ‘right’ is a contradiction. The rights enshrined in the Declaration of Independence were to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Each of these is a right to act, not a right to things…

These two concepts of rights — rights as the right to liberty, versus rights as the rights to things — cannot coexist in the same respect at the same time…

To reform our health care industry we should challenge the premises that invited government intervention in the first place. The moral premise is that medical care is a right. It is not. There was no ‘right’ to such care before doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies produced it. There is no ‘right’ to anything that others must produce, because no one may claim a ‘right’ to force others to provide it. Health care is a service, and we all depend upon thinking professionals for it. To place doctors under hamstringing bureaucratic control is to invite poor results.”