David Brooks’ op-ed in the NY Times:
Some liberals, believing that government should step in as employers withdraw, support a European-style, single-payer health care system. That would be fine if we were Europeans. But Americans, who are more individualistic and pluralistic, will not likely embrace a system that forces them to defer to the central government when it comes to making fundamental health care choices . . .. . . The worst thing we could do is get the smartest people in a room and build one system from Washington. Instead, Washington should set parameters and states should be left free to innovate and compete.
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This is excellent advice. It will be utterly ignored by both the closet totalitarians of both the Republican Party and the overt corrupt would-be tyrants in the democrat party.
Not to mention the vast power mad health care bureaucracies in Washington, immune to whoever is nominally in elected control.
Ed Sodaro, MD
As they say, do you want the people who run the post office to manage our health system?
Ms. MOM @ MOMrants.com
“As they say, do you want the people who run the post office to manage our health system?”
Do we want the people who run our HMOs and insurance companies to run our health care system? I love how all these pundits tell us what the “American people” want. Like its individualistic and pluralistic (isn’t that contradiction in terms?) to want to be a slave to some bureaucrat at an HMO.
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