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Compulsory Medical Care and the Welfare State
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Author: Melchior Palyi
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Category: Big Government, Health
The doctrine of the Welfare State is being offered in the United States as a bright and shiny new.invention. It is being accepted by some on the assumption that it is a device with inherent capacity to solve the complicated problems of mankind,-.the accumulation of the ·misdeeds of countless generations of men. The term “Welfare State” has
An Inflation Primer
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Author: Melchior Palyi
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Category: Money and Banks
Inflation concerns every citizen-worker, banker, creditor, debtor, politician and union leader. It is the “legalized robbery” by which wealth is distributed, false prosperity is prolonged and nations are ruined. An Inflation Primer is written for the general reader. It explains in non-technical language the intimate complexities of our monetary,
Origin and Rise of Compulsory Medicine
Mises Daily
Author: Melchior Palyi
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Category: Interventionism, Other Schools of Thought, Health, World History
[Excerpted from chapter 2 of Compulsory Medical Care and the Welfare State (1950)] Obligatory health insurance started moderately enough — in Prussia. Compulsion under a law of 1845 was left in the hands of municipal administrations, with no government subsidy involved and no contributions from employers. The antisocialist law of 1878 suppressed
A Medical Proletariat
Mises Daily
Author: Melchior Palyi
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Category: Interventionism, Other Schools of Thought, Health
[Chapter 8, Compulsory Medical Care and the Welfare State (1950)] The doctors are, of course, the key figures of governmentalized medicine. The prime purpose is to procure their services and all that goes with them. Their honoraria alone, disregarding the dentists’, constitute anywhere between nearly 50 percent (in Switzerland) and little more
Some Social Aspects of Medical Socialism
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Author: Melchior Palyi
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[Excerpted from Compulsory Medical Care and the Welfare State ] “Utopias are realizable. Life marches toward the Utopias. And perhaps a new century begins, a century in which the intellectuals and the cultured class will dream of means to escape the Utopias and to return to a non-Utopian society less ‘perfect’ and freer.” — Nicolas Berdjaev. The