British Conservatives Tangle Over Their National Health Service
Medicare and Medicaid are breaking the federal government and many state budgets are straining from the weight of their Medicaid payments. Massachusetts and Hawaii have unsustainable government health systems. But rather than calling for cut backs on these programs, conservatives are on the defensive, just trying to prevent a total nationalization of health care. Liberals are often able to win the debate despite the fact that government simply doesn’t work as well as free markets to provide health care or any other good or service. Americans used to have a bias against government and for freedom; now it’s just the opposite. Until we can make inroads into the fundamental ideas that government helps people and freedom is an excuse for excess, we won’t be able to abolish the Dept. of Education or roll back government at any level. The problem is fundamental. Until the public bias is in favor of liberty again, we’ll keep getting elected leaders like Obama who will expand government control at every opportunity.
