The debate over the health-care bill in the House of Representatives has come to center on a single topic: How many Americans will be covered under its auspices.
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Freedom’s fallen entirely out of the [...] debate.
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The current health-care bill was dealt a terrific blow by the Congressional Budget Office, which estimated on Monday that by 2026, 24 million fewer people will have health-care coverage.
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As a simple matter of fact, that isn’t right. The verb “lose” suggests these 24 million will unwillingly be booted out of the system. No: The CBO says that most of those people will not be covered because they will not buy an insurance policy when it’s no longer the law of the land that they must do so.
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In other words, they’ll be exercising their freedom of choice as adults to opt out of the system — and should they try to get back in only when they get sick, they will have to pay a 30 percent penalty for their effort to game the system.
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The right’s riposte has always been: The cost of such a policy would be larger than this country can bear unless the government literally runs all of national health care directly in what’s known as a “single payer” system.
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Single-payer nationalizes health care, which is philosophically inimical to the American experiment and would as a practical matter be destructive. It would drive the best people out of medicine, retard the medical innovations that are improving our lives every year and create a horrifying system of rationing.
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Our political system isn’t designed to ensure parity of outcome. It exists to enshrine the freedom of the individual from coercion by the state and to provide for the working of a free society outside government control.
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Also as a matter of fact, the people who now have coverage under ObamaCare who did not before it was passed are in a degenerating system. Their premiums have risen by double digits a year, and their deductibles have risen to such an extent that many of them don’t get a cent back from insurance even after they make some use of the system.
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In a stunning March 13 op-ed, [Christopher Ruddy, the publisher of Newsmax and a close friend of the president’s] argues that the private health-care system is a mirage and that Trump should ditch what he calls “Ryancare” to protect Medicare and push for a huge expansion of the Medicaid system to make it the provider for far more people than just the poorest Americans.
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Barack Obama and the Democrats may have lost the House in 2010, the Senate in 2014 and the presidency in 2016, but they may be winning the most important argument they’ve ever made.
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The case for liberty is in desperate straits.
John Podhoretz @ NY Post
"So poor people should stop having heart attacks and strokes." -- Jason Chaffetz, probably.
Don't worry. We won't get single payer health care even if T-Rump actually wanted it. Congress members are too heavily supported by the insurance industry.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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