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.
