Missed this gem from yesterday:
If you still don’t like Obamacare---and I know you don’t---even though it’s built on market-based ideas of choice and competition in the private sector, then you should explain how, exactly, you’d cut costs, and cover more people, and make insurance more secure. You owe it to the American people to tell us what you are for, not just what you’re against. That way we can have a vigorous and meaningful debate. That’s what the American people deserve. That’s what the times demand. It’s not enough anymore to just say we should just get our government out of the way and let the unfettered market take care of it---for our experience tells us that’s just not true.
But too much of our private health-care system is an unfettered market. Even if insurance companies are now required to cover some routine services and can only extort a certain percentage of our income, hospitals can still charge whatever they want because they can. Physicians can still charge whatever they want because they can. Pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers can still charge whatever they want because they can. And the Goldberg Act does squat about it. It simply shifts the costs around. Those "market-based ideas of choice and competition" the President touts are the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in America, and have been for years. They need to be dynamited, not held up as some noble example to follow.
---Baron V
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