but not so easy to condemn inaccessibility,
which is more complicated. In my opinion, inaccessibility is also more insidious. For some of my thoughts about that, see Trapped by the Safety Net, in the July 1998 issue.
The larger significance of the experience is that it tends to support my
belief that the medical establishment is a tool of the police state.
Consider that any refusal of a person to submit to the government's authority
inhibits or eliminates that person's ability to be employed, to obtain insurance,
or to have any other means of gaining access to medical treatment.
All medical services, procedures, treatments, and products are prohibited
unless they're authorized by the government. Nobody, however competent,
is permitted to provide any such thing unless he's licensed by the government.
All of that licensing and regulation doesn't protect people from medical
malpractice. It protects the medical establishment from competition.
More important, it manipulates people into submitting to the authority of
the U.S. government. Whoever controls the medical establishment, and
access to it, controls the people.
There isn't any way to provide all of the treatment that's desired by all
of the people. See Trapped by the Safety Net, previously mentioned.
Even so, I believe that the situation could be greatly improved by making
all of the licenses, permits, and approvals optional on all pharmaceuticals,
procedures, treatments, and practitioners. A doctor who wants a license
should be able to apply for a license. A doctor who doesn't want a
license shouldn't be required to have one. A pharmaceutical firm that
wants FDA, AMA, etc. approval should be able to apply for it. A firm
that doesn't want it shouldn't be required to have it. If anybody could
practice his own version of medicine, without being harassed, inhibited,
or punished by the government, and if anybody could seek any medical treatment
that he wanted, then I believe that things would be much improved.
Somebody like me wouldn't be limited to a $5,000 CT scan, available only
at a licensed institution, only after being prescribed by a licensed doctor.
Instead, he'd be able to look around for something less expensive.
I believe that a much better medical care system than the one that we have
now would result from such unregulated freedom of choice.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif) Letters to the Editor Sam
Your article "Informed Consent" [Informed Choice,
page 1] - Jan 2020 Frontiersman was very much on point. May I post
it to The Voluntaryist site and use it in a future hardcopy newsletter?
Please let me know if this is all right by you. —Carl Watner, editor The Voluntaryist, P.O. Box 275 Gramling, South Carolina 29348 www.voluntaryist.com![15x15 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/15x15_Page_Background.gif)
Yes, you may use the article. As always, I request that you
use it exactly as I wrote it, without any editing.—editor ![15x15 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/15x15_Page_Background.gif) Dear Sammy....
On another subject, I realized today that I have created a unique conundrum for myself, and about myself. About 2 months ago I wrote an op-ed for
your publication entitled "The Truth as a Metaphor". In it I clearly
explained my thoughts and ideas on the subject. I had intended to share
it with you and your readers in order to help with their search, and your
search, for the Truth. I wrote it, and proofed it, and reread it, and
realized two things at once. First, I realized that it was oddly self-serving.
Something that I had not intended. And second, the article had become
just another metaphor for the subject about which it had been written.
Hence, the conundrum. It wasn't what I had intended. So I put
it in a file and waited.
Waiting is something that we all do, and I continue to wait. Sometimes
we are rewarded with enlightenment, or just a cliché, that will help us along our way. Today I heard mine and I took it to heart. I
now know that I am waiting for "one road to become many". I hope you
have a great tomorrow.... —T. M., Winter Park, Florida ![15x15 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/15x15_Page_Background.gif) Hey Sammy,
Just a quick note, in regards to your Dec. 2019 Frontiersman, about the pictures in your article "Strange Explanations" [December 2019, page 3].
The more I view those photos the more disturbed I become about the "smudged" one.
For starters, the "not smudged" photo, I already pointed out [January 2020, page 4], why bulldoze a huge lot, put a fence around it, in
the middle of the forest, unless you want privacy, and why leave a patch of
forest inside the fence line? Look at it, they drive around it
so much there are clear dirt roads and the cars are somewhat, neatly
parked (crammed in), into somewhat straight lines. But it's
the helicopters that don't make sense, there are aviation junk yards in Arizona
and Nevada and New Mexico. I've seen them, and the helicopters there
have their rotors removed and like the cars are in the photo, they cram the
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