Rand Paul Quotes
We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.
Paul, Rand. Remarks at Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Hearing. U.S. Senate, 2 Feb. 2011.
Lock’s view differs from modern American business ethics and law. He argues that regardless of circumstances a merchant may charge anything and that all consumers must be treated equally, which would eliminate preferred customers or even automobile sales practices where prices are negotiated for most vehicles. See {616334} to see how he deals with necessities of life: as issues of charity—not economics.
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
The economic law of supply and demand does not really operate in most of the health care system as most people cannot place an economic value on their life and/or health. If we need an appendectomy to prevent death from infection, we do not consider doing the operation for $5,000 but say that if the price were $25,000 we would prefer to die. We will pay whatever we have to. Existential issues do not lend themselves to economics.
Randal Howard Paul is an American physician and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Kentucky since 2011. He is the son of former three-time presidential candidate and twelve-term U.S. Representative of Texas, Ron Paul.
