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No, These Aren’t Health Care Reform Fairy Tales

January 6, 2010 - 12:00 am - by Joe Barton
goy
2010-01-06 09:20:34

I’m still looking for the section in the Constitution that gives the federal government authority to run a health insurance business on the backs of the Taxpayers. No luck so far.

In all the years I’ve been pointing out a few simple facts, nothing I’ve heard or read changes the reality…

As long as the relationship between provider and consumer is corrupted by bureaucratic intermediaries, we will see failure in health care, which we have been watching for decades. Health care – and lately, health care insurance – costs have skyrocketed in direct proportion to the amount that government and comprehensive group health insurance companies interpose themselves between the health care provider and consumer. We need to get government OUT of the business of regulating and/or insuring against health care costs, where it has no Constitutional authority to operate and stop subsidizing comprehensive, group health care insurance policies which ultimately force costs to increase overall.

The fact that anyone is even discussing the merits or myths of the current socialized medicine bill – especially given the fact that NO ONE has a comprehensive understanding of what’s in it – is indicative of how completely our Republic has been degraded by decades of morally adolescent thinking.