Mark West
It's the reform, stupid
By Mark West
We are a racist, un-American, mob! We are the protesters and town hall disrupters targeted by public health care plan advocates in Congress and the media.
Suddenly, organized protest is a bad-word on the left...mere months after arguing that being a community-organizer was the best Presidential qualification!
Lost in the frenzied rush of imposing a public health care plan on the election losers is the opportunity for real health care reform. Do we really want to sacrifice another decade because a few people want a public plan when the majority of us do not?
According to polls, a majority of Americans want health care reform and oppose a federal health care plan. Evidence of this shift in opinion can be found in the rhetoric. Key Democrats moved the goal posts this weekend.
The new goal line: promotion of competition...while hyped as the "best option" the federal plan is now non-essential. However, will we see substantial regulatory reform or just some face-saving worthless piece of legislation?
Maybe, Congress could consider deregulation. I know, it's a dirty word, but consider my point. What if every American had the same "exchange" of choices, hundreds of different plans, from which to choose an insurance plan? Deregulation will achieve this and create competitive choice.
How about cost? Regulations that protect good practitioners from bad patients would be one of many means of reducing the exorbitant costs of health care.
What would you rather have too many of: doctor's offices or ambulance chasers?
I could list many other reforms, but I've made my point.
We can have real reform if we will just throw the public health care plan out with the bath-water!
© Mark West
August 17, 2009
We are a racist, un-American, mob! We are the protesters and town hall disrupters targeted by public health care plan advocates in Congress and the media.
Suddenly, organized protest is a bad-word on the left...mere months after arguing that being a community-organizer was the best Presidential qualification!
Lost in the frenzied rush of imposing a public health care plan on the election losers is the opportunity for real health care reform. Do we really want to sacrifice another decade because a few people want a public plan when the majority of us do not?
According to polls, a majority of Americans want health care reform and oppose a federal health care plan. Evidence of this shift in opinion can be found in the rhetoric. Key Democrats moved the goal posts this weekend.
The new goal line: promotion of competition...while hyped as the "best option" the federal plan is now non-essential. However, will we see substantial regulatory reform or just some face-saving worthless piece of legislation?
Maybe, Congress could consider deregulation. I know, it's a dirty word, but consider my point. What if every American had the same "exchange" of choices, hundreds of different plans, from which to choose an insurance plan? Deregulation will achieve this and create competitive choice.
How about cost? Regulations that protect good practitioners from bad patients would be one of many means of reducing the exorbitant costs of health care.
What would you rather have too many of: doctor's offices or ambulance chasers?
I could list many other reforms, but I've made my point.
We can have real reform if we will just throw the public health care plan out with the bath-water!
© Mark West
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