This is a refreshing contrast to the many mechanisms used today to attempt to reduce medical care spending through restrictive access to physicians, specialists, and treatments as well as unnecessary administrative and regulatory expenditures. The difference stems from a fundamentally different philosophy. The MSA is developed from the basic premise that an individual has the right to freedom of choice. The tyrannies of the British Government, including the charge that the King of Great Britain has erected a Multitude of New Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People and eat out their Substance, could be held in direct comparison to the growing health care bureaucracy with similar tyrannies suffered at the hands of the very government our forefathers had established to protect us from. The ideas that founded this country are being subverted or ignored and this has resulted in many of the problems in health care.
Ideas have consequences and the wrong ideas produce wrong action and bad consequences.
The history of health care financing bears this out. Individual liberty is the freedom to act. It means your right to take the actions necessary to advance your life and pursue your happiness. It is not a liberty to take the things you want or need from others by force. With liberty comes corresponding responsibility.