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Health care

Thursday, May 31 at 11:42 AM

Richard Watts of Hayden writes:

In his May 22 article “Health plans up in air,” Bill Scanlon notes that the Blue Ribbon Commission’s task is “to recommend three to five plans that would improve access to health care while keeping down costs.”
Only a free market can achieve this.
The commission thinks it knows best, discarding the only free market proposal (named FAIR), and recommending the very government interference that caused our present problems in health care — more people in Medicaid, and more restrictions on consumers, doctors, and insurance companies. Colorado would then scramble to contain costs by restricting access to health care, i.e., bureaucrats would allow access only to certain approved providers, treatments, and drugs.
These recommendations won’t work because they violate the rights of every person involved. You have a right as an individual to choose exactly how you spend your own health care dollars. Regulation and control by any government violates this right. But the 208 Commission thinks it knows better than you and your doctor what kind of health care is appropriate for you.
To learn more about how government interference caused the problems we face in health care and health insurance, visit www.WeStandFIRM.org.

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READER COMMENTS

If all the elected people in government had to have the same exact health care that they are wanting for each of us and no better and no worse I might accept it but that would never happen. There is no way the government can run anything right much less health care.

Posted by troll on May 31, 2007 04:13 PM