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I watched it and as usual David Mayer was an interesting speaker. He used to talk every year at the Objectivist Center summer seminars and now the Atlas Society summer seminars. Unfortunately, he does not like to travel by air and about half the summer seminars are on the Left Coast, so he now talks only every other year. The broad sense of freedom of contract that he holds is what I call Freedom of Association, of which freedom of contract is a subset to me. But he makes it clear that contract had a much broader range in meaning long ago, so freedom of association and freedom of contract are really pretty similar. I have written about the freedom of association a number of times, this being one instance: http://objectivistindividualist.blogspot.com/2010/11/right-to-association-with-others-right.html<http://www.linkedin.com/e/-9f4mfw-gj3ves8p-2u/plh/http%3A%2F%2Fobjectivistindividualist%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F2010%2F11%2Fright-to-association-with-others-right%2Ehtml/o1Yy/> In the Q&A he said that we all have the freedom of medical services or health care in the sense that we have the freedom to make individual contracts with others to provide for our health care. This assertion of the right to health care should be contrasted with the claim of the socialist left that some people have the right to force others to give them health care. David Mayer says the loss of our right to health care is the essential reason for opposing ObamaCare and calling for its repeal. I made this same argument some time again on my blog at http://objectivistindividualist.blogspot.com/p/right-to-health-care.html<http://www.linkedin.com/e/-9f4mfw-gj3ves8p-2u/plh/http%3A%2F%2Fobjectivistindividualist%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2Fp%2Fright-to-health-care%2Ehtml/Eeys/> I am ordering David Mayer's book The Liberty of Contract tonight. I am certain is very good and that the freedom he is trying to promote, with the help of the CATO Institute is very critical. You can order the book at the CATO Institute website. They are the publisher. It came out today, but is available in either hardcover or paperback forms. Posted by Charles R. Anderson, Ph.D. *Like this discussion »*<http://www.linkedin.com/e/-9f4mfw-gj3ves8p-2u/lvi/55492/40652390/member/true/grp_email_like_post/> *Comment »*<http://www.linkedin.com/e/-9f4mfw-gj3ves8p-2u/vaq/40652390/55492/29940367/view_disc/> *Stop Following Discussion »*<http://www.linkedin.com/e/-9f4mfw-gj3ves8p-2u/ufv/55492/40652390/member/true/grp_email_unfollow_post/> NEW Now you can comment by replying to this email. LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. ©2010, LinkedIn Corporation. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
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