Government-run health care by another name
Posted on | August 17, 2009 | Comments Off by Aschwin de Wolf
The co-ops that are being proposed to bring more choice and competition to health care are just the “public option” by another name and will drive private insurers out of business. As Michael T. Tanner writes for the Cato Institute:
If a “co-op” is run by the federal government under rules imposed by the federal government with funding provided by the federal government, it’s simply government-run health insurance by another name. Opponents of a government takeover of the health care system should not be fooled.
As an alternative, the Heritage Foundation has outlined seven principles that need to be part of real consumer-driven co-ops. It is doubtful whether such co-ops will be effective unless real market based reforms are introduced. At the Mises Institute, Hans-Herman Hoppe proposes four solutions to bring serious competition to the health care market. More recently, John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, weighed in with eight solutions to lower the cost of health care.
To mount an effective campaign against the government takeover of the health care system, proposals to bring more individual choice and competition should be complemented with a sustained attack on the idea of health care as a right and the progressive zeal to substitute coercion for charity.
Tags: Cato Institute > Hans-Hermann Hoppe > Healt Care Co-ops > Health Care > Heritage Foundation > John Mackey > Michael T. Tanner > Mises Institute > The Right to Health Care > Whole Foods
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