C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson writing in the Foundation for Economic Education’s “The Freeman” online: Health Care and Radical Monopoly.
Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty
Ed. Gary Chartier & Charles W. Johnson
Individualist anarchists believe in mutual exchange, not economic privilege. They believe in freed markets, not capitalism. They defend a distinctive response to the challenges of ending global capitalism and achieving social justice: eliminate the political privileges that prop up capitalists.
By C4SS Advisory Panel member Gary Chartier. A compelling case for a stateless society.
Anarchy happens when people organize their lives peacefully and voluntarily, without state aggression. This simple but powerful book explains why the state is illegitimate, unnecessary and dangerous, and what we can do to begin achieving real freedom. Paperback, 129 pp.
This is a really outstanding piece. It nails both sets of issues: the the things the state does to limit access by raising costs through cartelization, and the things the state does to limit access by reducing disposable income, access to decent housing, etc., through cartelization, regulation, and so forth. As long as we treat the problem as one of retaining current levels of compensation to doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, insurers, and other market participants while expanding the number of people with access to health care services, we can hardly be surprised if it seems insoluble.