•7:32 PM
We live in a land of peace, plenty and opportunity. Surely Americans can find a way to better use those resources to take care of those in need. How we do this is the debate we need to have. Sadly, the debate that is taking place is making us think that is what we are doing when, in reality, we are not. The debate in Washington is not about a better way for health care. It is about government setting up a public option or a single-payer option.
If the debate can become how to use the plenty and opportunity of our great Country to better care for the health of one another, then I would argue that the direction we need to go is one of breaking up insurance monopolies, cutting back the government’s involvement as an insurer, elevating the government to a role of supervision and regulation where they can setup the right structure for free market forces to work, finding a way that the uninsured can pay rates comparable to that of the insured, and creating a model for affordable, private insurance not obtained through an employer.
Because the question before us is a public or single payer government option, my posts will focus on convincing any reader that any increased government intervention on the business side of health care, rather than on regulation, is folly. I have shared what the economic cost of increased government involvement in health care will be, one of the likely outcomes of government run health care and laid out an argument that health care is not a Right that governments have the Natural power to secure and that when they attempt to, they trample on the true Rights governments were intended to secure.
Over the next several weeks I will lay out additional arguments that address Health Care Reform. Each argument can be taken in isolation but, in the end, these arguments form the case that should be considered collectively.
However, in the end, if Americans can succeed in defeating the proposals for more government involvement in the insurance side of Health Care, we still will have the real work to perform. This work is reforming the American Health Care system to see that the free market can at last prevail and that you and I as part of that free market and as brothers and sisters of the human family can be our brother’s keeper.
If the debate can become how to use the plenty and opportunity of our great Country to better care for the health of one another, then I would argue that the direction we need to go is one of breaking up insurance monopolies, cutting back the government’s involvement as an insurer, elevating the government to a role of supervision and regulation where they can setup the right structure for free market forces to work, finding a way that the uninsured can pay rates comparable to that of the insured, and creating a model for affordable, private insurance not obtained through an employer.
Because the question before us is a public or single payer government option, my posts will focus on convincing any reader that any increased government intervention on the business side of health care, rather than on regulation, is folly. I have shared what the economic cost of increased government involvement in health care will be, one of the likely outcomes of government run health care and laid out an argument that health care is not a Right that governments have the Natural power to secure and that when they attempt to, they trample on the true Rights governments were intended to secure.
Over the next several weeks I will lay out additional arguments that address Health Care Reform. Each argument can be taken in isolation but, in the end, these arguments form the case that should be considered collectively.
However, in the end, if Americans can succeed in defeating the proposals for more government involvement in the insurance side of Health Care, we still will have the real work to perform. This work is reforming the American Health Care system to see that the free market can at last prevail and that you and I as part of that free market and as brothers and sisters of the human family can be our brother’s keeper.
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