The most important health care right is the right to make one’s own health decisions. To restore that right, the Cato Institute is launching an initiative to make health savings accounts (HSAs) work for everyone.
How do HSAs restore health care rights? Read on…
An essential part of the right to make one’s own health decisions is the right to control one’s income. Every individual has a right to make use of their earnings according to their values. Any other principle would create inequalities between citizens and government officials who could impose their values on others. The right to control one’s earnings includes the right to choose whether, how much, and how to spend one’s money on health insurance and medical care. If you don’t control the money that purchases your health care, you don’t control your health care.
Government exists to protect these rights. Yet governments routinely violate health care rights with excessive taxes and coercive tax penalties that deprive Americans of control over their health care decisions and leave them with worse health care.
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