John Stossel astutely points out a key point that does not get aired in the mainstream media as it covers the debate in Congress about “reforming” the medical care system.
Advocates of government control want you to believe that the serious shortcomings of our medical and insurance system are failures of the free market. But that’s impossible because our market is not free. Each state operates a cozy medical and insurance cartel that restricts competition through licensing and keeps prices higher than they would be in a genuine free market. But the planners won’t talk about that. After all, if government is the problem in the first place, how can they justify a government takeover?
Are you surprised? This isn’t an uncommon pattern. Government caused the problem, then uses the problem to claim the need for even more control by the government so it can fix the problem.
Stossel concludes:
Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians’ refusal to give up power. Allowing them to seize another 16 percent of the economy won’t solve our problems.Freedom will.
I just have to say: amen.