• • American Health Care: Essential Principles and Common Fallacies 
Richard E. Ralston, Capitalism Magazine The Fountainhead  |The Virtue of Selfishness  |Individual Rights  |Individualism  |Objectivist author  | Without a foundation on the principles of individualism, the door is open to anti-concepts such as the “right to health care.” Those who proclaim the “right” to health care usually mean its opposite, i.e., that no one has the right to any health care at all unless they get it from the government. When private health care is criminalized and everyone is forced into a government system with nowhere else to go, we are at the mercy of the political powers that administer such a system, whether it actually delivers health care or not. (This perversion of the concept of rights into goods and services, which you must be forced to provide to others, is described by Ayn Rand in her article “Man’s Rights” in The Virtue of Selfishness.)   Published: 2013-03-01