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Crunch Time for Health Care: Now It’s Up to Us

October 13, 2009 - 6:02 am - by Roger Kimball
Steve
2009-10-13 11:46:05

Who wouldn’t want healthcare in the hands of for-profit companies? It is in America, where everything has a price, that must we make a profit on something so fundamental. In America, where the only things worth having are the ones run by profit-seeking companies. In America where where the idea that WE manage our own healthcare for US is offensive because everybody knows that government will foul it up. Capitalism and the free market excuses us from making moral decisions. We just let the market decide for us and we tell ourselves that the health insurance oligopolies can run companies successfully but a government-run program must surely fail.