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The Health Plan’s Devilish Principles | by Murray N. Rothbard

The standard media cliché about the Clinton health plan is that God, or the Devil, depending on your point of view, “is in the details.” There is surprising agreement among both the supporters and all too many of the critics of the Clinton health “reform.” The supporters say that the general principles of the plan are wonderful, but that there are a few problems in the details: e.g., how much will it cost, how exactly will it be financed, will small business get a sufficient subsidy to offset its higher costs, and on into the night. Originally published in 1993 in “Making Economic Sense.” Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod. http://mises.org

Full text of “The Health Plan’s Devilish Principles” available online:
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Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America’s greatest radical libertarian author — writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles.

Links to more online writings by Murray Rothbard:

Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economics
http://tinyurl.com/y8zg569h
Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/axhdzg3

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
http://tinyurl.com/qgt9xqf
Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/ph9k2zu

The Ethics of Liberty
http://tinyurl.com/pekmz3j
Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/pwt6pzz

Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Vol. I
http://tinyurl.com/ngqzfup
Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/a3obfgu

Classical Economics: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Vol. II
http://tinyurl.com/np6a898
Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/bd44b6s

The Case Against the Fed
http://tinyurl.com/qbr9twj
Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/na9ds33

What Has Government Done to Our Money?
http://tinyurl.com/p3mkr6z
Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/pku6eyp

A History of Money and Banking in the United States
http://tinyurl.com/ot23t9p
Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/o8xj73s

The Progressive Era
http://tinyurl.com/ydhn5aob
Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/wd53r7v

The Betrayal of the American Right
http://tinyurl.com/r33fgpt
Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/yx6vjudz

Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 1: A New Land, A New People: The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century
http://tinyurl.com/prrc32p
Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/nhv65at

Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 2: “Salutary Neglect”: The American Colonies in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century
http://tinyurl.com/nh8bst5
Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/pdo4xup

Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 3: Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775
http://tinyurl.com/qj9dfhm
Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/q5kw4ke

Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 4: The Revolutionary War, 1775-1784
http://tinyurl.com/pkhlb2p
Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/ns5gkuv

Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 5: The New Republic: 1784–1791
http://tinyurl.com/tuel93c
Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/qtlup2h

Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero
http://tinyurl.com/obyk7yp

Anatomy of the State
http://tinyurl.com/odvnhyc

Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure
http://tinyurl.com/ogo5ku2

Education: Free and Compulsory
http://tinyurl.com/wb7gsfy

Science, Technology, and Government
http://tinyurl.com/uz24qlh

Ten Great Economic Myths
http://tinyurl.com/nnr9dh9

The Economics of War
http://tinyurl.com/otzpgct

Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty
http://tinyurl.com/u9mfmnl

Kingdom Come: The Politics of the Millennium
http://tinyurl.com/nhps5vo

Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature
http://tinyurl.com/oqxsjl3

Murray N. Rothbard vs. The Philosophers
http://tinyurl.com/kv8eeup

America’s Great Depression
http://tinyurl.com/p7wqfgx

Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy
http://tinyurl.com/qgnc7ra

World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals
http://tinyurl.com/pyzyfzb

Related online resources:

Murray Rothbard: Mises’s True Heir
http://tinyurl.com/y9hj64db

Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard
http://tinyurl.com/oevl64l

Rothbard’s Legacy
http://tinyurl.com/3yselcl

Rothbard Vindicated
http://tinyurl.com/q3yos7x

Murray N. Rothbard: Mr. Libertarian
http://tinyurl.com/o7v6zgj

Meeting Murray Rothbard On the Road to Libertarianism
http://tinyurl.com/ux9zxef

The Unstoppable Rothbard
http://tinyurl.com/n9vbt7b

The Political Importance of Rothbard
http://tinyurl.com/ybxat2r8

Penthouse Interviews Murray Rothbard
http://tinyurl.com/yan7hu5r

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Murray Rothbard was born March 2, 1926, the son of David and Rae Rothbard. He was a brilliant student even as a young child; and his academic record at Columbia University, where he majored in mathematics and economics, was stellar. In the Columbia economics department, Rothbard did not receive any instruction in Austrian economics, and Mises was no more than a name to him. In a course on price theory given by George Stigler, however, he encountered arguments against such then popular measures as price and rent control. These arguments greatly appealed to him; and he wrote to the publisher of a pamphlet that Stigler and Milton Friedman had written on rent control.
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