Yaron Brook

The application of reason to the creation of human values -- Ingenuity, innovation, creativity, the ability to produce freely based on them, and to keep the rewards of our creation -- this is what we must fight for!

@thehiredmind Not a weak answer, but the truth. And America is not being destroyed by immigrants, but by Americans (especially those teaching at its universities).

@yaronbrook The only answer I found was extremely weak, essentially that open borders would destroy Israel, but not America. Look around you bro, your chosen country is being destroyed, and a big factor in that is open borders.

Checkout this interview I did in Prospera a few days ago. Ep. 106: Yaron Brook: Capitalism, Ayn Rand, and the Moral Case for Freedom youtu.be/Iy1bt_CxNrM?si… via @YouTube

@thehiredmind @YouTube You mean America -- my chosen country. It's a stupid question, which I have answered a hundred times.

@yaronbrook @YouTube Did he ask you why you support open borders for America, but closed borders for your native country, Israel?

Energy Crisis & the War; Gold; Cuba; Save America Act; Apple News| Yaron Brook Show x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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The Jones Act cronies are super mad Americans might save a few bucks at the pump nytimes.com/2026/03/18/bus…

Joe Kent: “There is zero evidence that Iran was trying to build a nuclear weapon, Netanyahu is warmongering.” The Deputy Speaker of the Iranian Parliament: “We tried to develop nuclear weapons, but couldn't keep it secret.”

@NetChoice put it well today: Section 230 is "a critical legal firewall that prevents the weaponization of liability from crushing American innovation and silencing speech online." It protects platforms' ability to moderate without being buried in lawsuits, and we need it for the internet to function.  netchoice.org/netchoice-enco…

Joe Kent says we need to ask questions about the Charlie Kirk assassination because he opposed war with Iran. The guy who resigns from the Trump in is an even bigger scumbag than those who stay behind. Just in awe of how disgusting they are.

Yaron Brook: What to Study in College, Why You’ll Have Multiple Careers, & How to Think for Yourself youtu.be/_SMJ76Hbu3s?si… via @YouTube

Should You Live for Yourself or Should You Live to Help Other People? | Yaron Brook Talk at UIUC youtu.be/kIk668oRD5o?si… via @YouTube

War Update; Jones Act; Cesar Chavez; Robots; mRNA; Giving Pledge | Yaron Brook Show x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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It’s getting to the point where if you’re an Iranian official and Israel hasn’t killed you yet it’s a bit insulting

Americans Are Not 'Very Unhealthy': Personal Responsibility vs. Healthcare Delivery - A Case for Free-Market Reform The recent TikTok video correctly exposes the deadly failures of Canada's single-payer system - rationed care, months-long wait times, and thousands of preventable deaths each year. Yet the accompanying assertion that "Americans are very unhealthy" as a critique of U.S. healthcare delivery is fundamentally misleading. It conflates voluntary personal behaviors with the actual performance of doctors, hospitals, treatments, and medical innovation once patients need care. Smoking rates, obesity levels, and related lifestyle decisions are outcomes of individual choices and personal responsibility - not evidence that American medicine is failing at its core job of diagnosing, treating, and saving lives. Separating Lifestyle Choices from Medical Care Quality Obesity and smoking are matters of individual decisions about diet, exercise, and habits. They may influence broad population statistics, but they do not reflect shortcomings in the delivery of healthcare itself. The healthcare system's responsibility begins when a patient seeks treatment, and on that metric the United States stands out. When we examine outcomes that directly measure medical effectiveness - such as 5-year survival rates for major cancers (breast, prostate, colorectal, lung), management of advanced heart disease, and conditional life expectancy - the U.S. leads or matches the best in the world. Life expectancy once a person reaches age 70 is higher in America than anywhere else. These figures capture what doctors and hospitals actually deliver: cutting-edge interventions, rapid specialist access, and aggressive treatment protocols unavailable or delayed in socialized systems. The profit motive and remaining market elements in U.S. medicine drive roughly 70% of all global medical innovations. This is not coincidence; it is the direct result of competition, consumer choice, and the incentive to save lives and improve outcomes for paying patients. The Real Problems: Decades of Government Distortion, Not Inherent "Unhealthiness" Critics who blame American "unhealthiness" ignore that the U.S. system is not a pure free market. It is a heavily mixed economy where government programs (Medicare, Medicaid, employer tax incentives, mandates, and regulations) account for over 50-60% of all healthcare spending. These interventions create third-party-payer distortions, moral hazard, inflated prices, and reduced consumer sensitivity to costs - exactly the same problems that produce Canada's rationing and the NHS's failures. The U.S. is not "capitalist healthcare run amok"; it is government interference preventing capitalism from working as it does in every other industry. Accusations that the U.S. has "worse outcomes" or "higher costs with nothing to show" collapse under scrutiny. Higher raw life-expectancy-at-birth numbers in other countries are distorted by non-healthcare factors, but once we focus on delivery-relevant metrics (treatable conditions, post-diagnosis survival, older-age longevity), America excels. The profit-driven segment is precisely why innovation thrives here while socialized systems lag. For the poor or vulnerable, the answer is not more central planning; targeted, time-limited vouchers during transition preserve access while moving toward ownership and choice. The Solution: Yaron Brook's Principled, Step-by-Step Free-Market Reform Agenda Real reform means getting government out of healthcare and restoring individual rights, competition, and personal responsibility. In detailed discussions - including "Fixing US Healthcare System," the expert panel with Jared Rhoads, Reinier Schuur, and Colleen Smith, and comparisons of capitalist care versus the NHS - Yaron Brook lays out a comprehensive, gradual transition that avoids disruption while delivering superior results. The integrated recommendations are: Insurance Market Deregulation and Decoupling from Employment Phase out the tax deduction that props up employer-sponsored group plans. Move to individually owned, portable policies sold across state lines. Eliminate coverage mandates and shift to true catastrophic/high-deductible insurance for major events (cancer, surgery, heart attacks). Introduce innovative products: lifetime or long-term health policies, "health status" pricing adjustments, and prevention incentives (e.g., premium discounts for fitness tracking or healthy behaviors). Universal, Powerful Medical Savings Accounts (HSAs/MSAs) Make HSAs available to every American with unlimited pre-tax contributions, full rollover, and full inheritability. Use them for routine, preventive, and everyday care so patients pay directly and shop for value. During transition, seed accounts with former employer contributions or redirected Medicare/Medicaid funds. Phasing Out Medicare and Medicaid Convert entitlements to a voucher system: means-tested funds (gradually reduced over a generation) that individuals use to buy private catastrophic insurance plus fund their HSAs. Current beneficiaries remain supported; new entrants receive progressively smaller subsidies until the programs are fully eliminated. Long-term: charity, economic growth, and personal savings fill any remaining gaps. This approach addresses criticisms of "throwing grandmothers off cliffs" by ensuring a smooth, compassionate transition rather than abrupt cuts. Radical Deregulation to Unleash Competition Reform the FDA to approve drugs and devices on safety alone (let markets judge efficacy), with the ultimate goal of privatizing approval processes. Repeal Certificate-of-Need laws, loosen licensing barriers for physicians (including qualified foreign-trained doctors), scrap excessive regulations such as HIPAA, and enforce genuine price transparency. Promote and deregulate models like concierge medicine and Direct Primary Care (roughly $75-80 per month subscriptions) that rebuild strong doctor-patient relationships. Emphasize price transparency and real market prices to fix distorted incentives and exploding costs. Vision for Healthcare 3.0 A prevention-focused system where doctors act as true consultants helping patients stay healthy. Full competition will accelerate breakthroughs - lab-grown organs, advanced robotics, personalized medicine, and longevity research - while driving prices down and quality up. Warranties and guarantees on treatments become possible. The profit motive, far from a problem, ensures patients are treated as valued customers rather than rationed burdens. This is not overnight revolution but a deliberate, rights-based transition. It directly answers objections about "the poor," "pre-existing conditions," or access with vouchers, market innovations, and restored incentives for personal responsibility through ownership of insurance and HSAs. The evidence is overwhelming: Canada's and the NHS's rationing kills patients; America's partial market elements already deliver the world's best serious-illness outcomes and most innovation. Replacing government control with these reforms would eliminate deadly waits, accelerate breakthroughs, lower costs through competition, and give every individual true control over their health. Freedom in medicine works - everywhere else it has been tried. The only question is whether we have the courage to choose it over more of the same failed central planning. Full episodes for complete context: - Fixing US Healthcare System: youtube.com/watch?v=bUDCTb… - Expert discussion on U.S. healthcare: youtube.com/watch?v=QVh6Ko… - Capitalist healthcare vs. the NHS: youtube.com/watch?v=id6aZ_… - Regulatory Timeline and Cause-and-Effect Data: mises.org/mises-wire/how… The TikTok critique of Canada is spot-on. Importing more government is the wrong direction. Real reform starts with getting government out. cc: @yaronbrook

We are losing our freedom—our autonomy to act on bold new ideas, take risks, and innovate—because the political-economic system that protects liberty is under assault. Capitalism, the only social system based on the principle of individual rights, is attacked for the failures of a mixed economy. And driving these attacks is a bug in society’s operating system: a false moral code. If we want to take back our freedom and reclaim our moral right to the pursuit of happiness, then as Ayn Rand identified, we must understand and champion capitalism and the fact-based morality of rational self-interest at its foundation. In this talk at ARC-EU 2026, @yaronbrook will provide a primer on how to do just that. Register here » hubs.la/Q044Fgk50

Winning in Iran; Cuba; Ehrlich Dead; Tucker | Yaron Brook Show x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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The broken moral compass of the West: there was more feminist outrage for that 'sexist' bikini protein ad in the London tube, than for women experiencing horrors worse than the Handmaid's Tale on a national scale.

In a world of Paul Ehrlichs, be a Julian Simon.