Richard Ebeling emails:
Dear Bob,
I have a new article on the news and commentary website, "EpicTimes," on "For Healthcare the Best Government Plan is No Plan."
I argue that the opponents of ObamaCare have, in general, conceded the argument to the advocates of government-mandated health insurance and medical care. Too many of them have played into the hands of proponents ObamaCare by fumbling to offer their own alternative "plan" to Americans.
I argue that the far more correct response should be: (a) that such a government program is philosophically inconsistent with the founding principles of individual liberty and limited government upon which the country was founded; and (b) that it is fundamentally impossible for government to successfully "plan" the healthcare or anything else for the American people.
Rather than straightjacketing the American people to the government's single, imposed "plan," we should emphasize that the government should have no plan, precisely to allow multitudes of people in the competitive free market to have the liberty to apply their own possible plans to 'solve" and improve the healthcare requirements of the people of the country.
Releasing millions of minds to work, each with its own plan and guided by the profit-motive in the market place, is far better than depending upon the knowledge and ability of a handful of minds in the bureaucratic and political halls of power in Washington, D.C.
http://epictimes.com/article/316832/for-healthcare-the-best-government-plan-is-no-plan
Best Wishes,
Richard
a) the country was not founded on the principles of individual liberty.
ReplyDeleteb) Govt health care plan does not mean govt planning the healthcare of the American people. Just because you are using the same words does not mean you are saying the same thing. Order of the words matters.
Competition does not efficiently set prices in the health care market where the supplier of goods and services dictates demand. In a free market health care system, those who can pay for health care over pay and are over treated, those who can't pay get no health care.
JW: Troll.
Deleteyes those people will die in the streets as they have always done (rolls eyes)
DeleteJerry....what planet are you from?
DeleteJW:
ReplyDelete"Govt health care plan does not mean govt planning the healthcare of the American people. Just because you are using the same words does not mean you are saying the same thing. Order of the words matters."
Any kind of single payer system will result in a government planned system. Remember the saying, he who pays the upper calls the tune. When the government is responsible for paying your healthcare (or any 3rd party payer system) the government will decide what healthcare you will receive and when you receive it.
The ironic thing about the term "universal healthcare" is that this is the opposite of what any government run healthcare system will ever achieve. The government cannot infinitely allocate to the public scarce healthcare resources. There will be rationing. The government can promise to pay for your healthcare expenses but it cannot promise that you will get the healthcare you want or need when you want or need it, which is what the phrase "universal healthcare" implies. The implicit promise that government will provide to everyone healthcare will be like the promise that if you like your plan you can keep it. In other words, a lie.
"Govt health care plan does not mean govt planning the healthcare of the American people" Are you kidding?
ReplyDeleteGovt seeks to plan everything under the sun for its subjects. No trivial detail is to small for our overlord's attention.
"where the supplier of goods and services dictates demand" The supplier can only dictate demand from you if the supplier uses or threatens you with force to buy his product. Perhaps in the future, the government will threaten us to use medical services, but that day has not arrived.
Consumers are sovereign period. They vote their dollars to the companies and people who serve their needs the best. And there is no alternative to competition that provides this. Competition is the consumer's best friend. We need more competition in the medical services industry not less. Better quality and lower prices will follow,