WHAT ARE THE RIGHTS OF PATIENTS AND DOCTORS
Richard E. Ralston joins the program to discuss why medical care should be a free exchange between patient and doctor. Does the government have a role in determining who should receive healthcare and is there a ‘right’ to medical care. How much control should individuals have over their own medical care and how much should be directed by Washington, D.C. What is the difference between medical coverage and actual medical care. Do the good intentions of a government program trump the outcomes of the same program? Also discussed are the origins of third-party payers.
Mr. Ralston has been Executive Director of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine since joining the part-time staff of AFCM in 2002. His letters and columns written in support of individual rights and personal choice in health-care policy have since been published in dozens of major newspapers in the United States.
After serving seven years in the U.S. Army, Mr. Ralston completed an M.A. in International Relations at the University of Southern California in 1977. He then began a career in newspaper publishing and direct marketing. He has been the circulation director and publishing director of The Christian Science Monitor, a radio producer, a national television news business manager, and a book publisher. As an independent direct marketing consultant, his clients included IBM, British Airways, CNN, and the Los Angeles Times. His book Communism: Its Rise and Fall in the 20th Century was published in 1991. He edited the book Why Businessmen Need Philosophy in 1999, and was the revision editor of two books by Ayn Rand in 2005: Three Plays and The Early Ayn Rand. Mr. Ralston has contributed essays to several books about the novels of Ayn Rand. He is the Publishing Manager of the Ayn Rand Institute.
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