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To the Editor: According to your editorial (Aug. 6 issue),¹ you want to replace the insurance-company capitalists with the commissars of the state-run health care system, the former's "immoral" profits with government budgets, and presto! we will have "equity." According to your logic, it is wrong to enslave doctors for the benefit of stockholders, but it is OK for the state to enslave them for the sake of the uninsured. You fail to recognize that the fundamental ethical question is not for what purpose it is proper to enslave a person, but whether it is proper to enslave a person . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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