nostate.com» medical http://www.nostate.com ACCESS ALL AREAS Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:06:00 +0000 en hourly 1 Medical Insurance that Worked — Until Government “Fixed” Ithttp://www.nostate.com/2702/medical-insurance-that-worked-%e2%80%94-until-government-fixed-it/ http://www.nostate.com/2702/medical-insurance-that-worked-%e2%80%94-until-government-fixed-it/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:28:58 +0000 Mike Gogulski http://www.nostate.com/?p=2702

Originally posted by Darian Worden at Fr33 Agents Social (join now!):

Roderick Long wrote a great article on how mutual aid groups enabled low-income people to provide for each others’ health care needs until government shut the system down.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, one of the primary sources of health care and health insurance for the working poor in Britain, Australia, and the United States was the fraternal society. Fraternal societies (called “friendly societies” in Britain and Australia) were voluntary mutual-aid associations.

How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis

The article was made into a neat .pdf pamphlet by Invisible Molotov.

If you don’t have the means to make the pamphlet yourself, New Jersey Alliance of the Libertarian Left would be happy to send you a bundle. We also have a large number of other radical libertarian fliers.

It would also be interesting if mutual aid groups could spring up again, possibly in the counter-economy, as a counterweight to the government-corporate bureaucratic mess.

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