ObamaCare defenders say we must suffer the dysfunction and patch the law, because there is no alternative. They are wrong. On Nov. 2, for example, New York Times NYT -1.10% columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote movingly about his friend who lost employer-based insurance and died of colon cancer. Mr. Kristof concluded, This is why we need Obamacare. No, this is why we need individual, portable, guaranteed-renewable, inexpensive, catastrophic-coverage insurance. On Nov. 15, MITs Jonathan Gruber, an ObamaCare architect, argued on Realclearpolitics that we currently have a highly discriminatory system where if youre sick, if youve been sick or youre going to get sick, you cannot get health insurance. We do. He concluded that the Affordable Care Act is the only way to end that discriminatory system. It is not. On Dec. 3, President Obama himself said that the only alternative that Obamacares critics have, is, well, lets just go back to the status quo. Not so. What about the homeless guy who has a heart attack? Yes, there must be private and government-provided charity care for the very poor. What if people dont get enough checkups? Send them vouchers. To solve these problems we do not need a federal takeover of health care and insurance for you, me, and every American.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 02:03:30 +0000
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