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| Media Link - Washington Times | ||||
| Friday, 26 January 2007 00:00 | ||||
President Bush, in his State of the Union address, made the point that while government-funded health insurance is fine for the poor, the rest of the country should purchase it in the marketplace. The problem with this statement is that once the government opens the door to health care as a right for the poor, universal government care is inevitable. Either we're a free country, operating on a free market system, or we're not. If we're not, then the government will redistribute health care, first to some, then to all. It's happening before our eyes. Government picks up the tab for the elderly and the poor. That's a sizable amount of health care purchased in the U.S. This creates demand too great for the supply, which drives up costs for everyone. Government regulations, designed to address the rising costs, drive up costs still further. There's nothing left to do but what Ted Kennedy proposes: expand Medicare to everybody. And then, once that's done, the last logical step will be what Hillary Clinton proposed over a decade ago: make it illegal to obtain health care from any other source but the government program. (Think of it as a public school system, only with no option to go to private school, or home school). This is where we're heading, and there's no way to stop it, because the only alternative is to massively deregulate the market and get government out of health care altogether. No politician is going to propose this. So regardless of who's in charge, we're all going to be under government care sooner or later. For details on what that will be like, ask any Canadian who's waiting months, or years, for his heart surgery. Maybe, at that point, Americans will start to appreciate and understand the value and virtue of a free market.
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