"Talking Brook: 'Yaron Brook Show'"

After a brief spell of technological entanglement, Dr. Brook splashes into the show. The focus of the show is Medicare and a public option. A video of Sam Seder with Dr. Brook’s commentary carry the show. The good doctor still experiences some difficulties in relation to the update he performed on the software prior to the evening’s proceedings. The question of whether to use the public option or not concerns the idea of buying into a system and still keeping a private portion. Dr. Brook says that insurance companies seek knowledge on how to effectively price insurance. Like with auto insurance who charge folks despite the notion of whether they’ll get into a collision, medical insurance companies weigh whether someone will be charged more based on the fact that people get sick. For example, Dr. Brook’s puts out there the idea of obesity being more money than for someone who is fit. Bottom line, government distorts the market. Prices in the public option increase significantly if all people rush it.

The mechanism for Medicare for All program involves healthy and sick people to make it “somewhat work” according to Dr. Brook. Besides the economics, there is virtue in leading a healthy lifestyle and should not be punished for their efforts. What this entails is when Medicare is in place, the young are sacrificed to the old and the rich must sacrifice for the poor. A fully free market would permit an individual to cover them in advance of some risk, such as a birth of a child. Dr. Brook outlines how studying DNA is not racist but fact based. In relation to the health talk, Dr. Brook points out that in housing, free homes will create more homelessness as can be witnessed in Los Angeles, California. Taxes are not the issue with Medicare. The crux of the matter is the economic damage that wreaks havoc on the doctors, drug companies, and other healthcare producers, and, of course, morality.

When a Medicare or Medicaid patient sees a doctor, he or she does not get what he or she wants in full. In these situations, Medicare and Medicaid decide what medical professionals receive. Dr. Brook says that the doctor gets 25% less on the dollar. Medicare for All deprives young nurses and doctors in school the incentive to continue their studies. Innovation is definitely throttled by these government programs. Dr. Brook sees a “slow, steady, systematic deterioration” with the Medicare for All plan. Freedom is what necessitates the production of medical equipment, the salaries of professionals in health care, and the entire structure of the medical system.

Socialized medicine is ironic. It’s like a disease that everyone wants just so they can knock down the producers of the care. This disease is a “one size fits all” medicine, Dr. Brook says. Doctors become government employees under Medicare for All. The government becomes their “only source of revenue.” The left and the right both agree that drugs will be invented, equipment will spring from factories, and doctors will be given free range due to the government. Atlas Shrugged becomes part of the conversation as Dr. Brook says that the book is about innovators and thinking. What these health care systems deny and denigrate is the mind. Little Orren Boyles will run the medical profession and attempt to force the minds of those doctors and other facilitators who become embroiled in this whole mess.

Dr. Brook says that economics is the study of production and trade. He provides the facts by saying that scarcity is “boring.” The real engine of an economy are the producers and traders on the landscape. A Super Chatter asks a “Question of Scholarships” query which Dr. Brook responds by saying that it is completely okay to use government programs even if you’ve never paid into them. Another Super Chatter asks about Italian financial scholars on banking during the Renaissance. The job of the US government is to defend the lives and property of Americans. The government must take action against foreign aggressors, objectively, and crush the enemy who initiated force. An analysis of who, what, and why must be factored into destroying the destroyers in the first place. What a State ought to be concerned with is not eliminating an ideology but to “know the ideology and how it motivates people” and wipe out such motivators.

The legislation does not have to be Objectivist but objective. With individual rights and property rights, principles must be advocated and fully recognized.

Dr. Brook answers that the Nazis would have been a threat once they defeated Britain in WWII. He says that the Nazis would be more suicidal than communists. He continues by saying that America should not have supported the Soviets. Dr. Brook moves onto the next question with ease answering that private supertrains and flying cars ought to be projected for the future. He continues by saying that the highway system destroyed all innovation of train travel. He says that “the whole system is distorted by government.” Dr. Brook receives Gayle’s question concerning the Canadian healthcare system. He says that it would “not fly in the United States.” In an inquiry about treaties, Dr. Brook says “if jihadism is a threat to the United States” then the allied treaties would be in effect until the threat is extinguished.