Comments on: Health Cooperatives Are Not the Answer

By: goy

goy — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:46:32 +0000

What’s desperatedly needed is government reform, not health care reform.

Every attempt by government to meddle in health care has produced conditions that cause health care costs to rise at successively accelerating rates well beyond inflation, going all the way back to Medicare, continuing with HMOs and then with tax incentives for group comprehensive health care coverage. The trend is clear.

The government created the current ‘crisis’ by systematically destroying the free market for health care, forcing costs to skyrocket to the point where even routine care is excessively expensive, and conditioning Americans to conflate health care and fully-paid, comprehensive group insurance. Health care and “coverage” are not the same thing.

As Einstein’s observations regarding insanity prescribe, the problems created by government meddling in health care will not be resolved by more government meddling in health care. We must work to restore the free market in health care and bring the costs of routine health care back into equilibrium with other routine costs of living. That is the key. Increasing dependency on government is social suicide.
BTW I love your blog!

By: goy

goy — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:51:15 +0000

What's desperatedly needed is government reform, not health care reform. Every attempt by government to meddle in health care has produced conditions that cause health care costs to rise at successively accelerating rates well beyond inflation, going all the way back to Medicare, continuing with HMOs and then with tax incentives for group comprehensive health care coverage. The trend is clear. The government created the current 'crisis' by systematically destroying the free market for health care, forcing costs to skyrocket to the point where even routine care is excessively expensive, and conditioning Americans to conflate health care and fully-paid, comprehensive group insurance. Health care and "coverage" are not the same thing. As Einstein's observations regarding insanity prescribe, the problems created by government meddling in health care will not be resolved by more government meddling in health care. We must work to restore the free market in health care and bring the costs of routine health care back into equilibrium with other routine costs of living. That is the key. Increasing dependency on government is social suicide.

By: JP

JP — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:09:06 +0000

Apparently, we must always keep one crazy, untenable canard in mind.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:28:30 +0000

Although I sometimes enjoy reading all the articles discussing this or that aspect of the health care debate we must always keep one thing in mind, the Democrats goal is NOT to increase coverage, lower costs, or in any way improve the health care system in this country. Their goal is to take it over in order to increase their control over We the People. All the alternative options they float in order to gain a little more support from Blue Dog Dems and Liberal Repubs is simply cover. Progressives NEVER take their eye off the ball. They just take what they can get and ask for more later. ANY compromise on health care that gives them one iota of what they want is merely one step closer for them to their ultimate goal of a single payer government run system.
Obama has said so, Pelosi has said so, Shakowski has said so, and countless others have said so. Why would any rational, liberty loving person give these socialists an inch? Just say no.

The only answer is the market and the reduction of government intervention and manipulation.