The government has been "reforming" health-care for sixty years—tax breaks for employer-provided health-insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, encouraging HMOs and managed care, and government health-insurance at the state level in Massachusetts, Maine, Oregon. Government health-care has expanded until it is now more than 50% of all health-care spending. Yet after sixty years of government "reform," the problems with health-care are just getting worse. So why should we believe that even more government is the solution?
This might be a good question to ask your Congressman, if only to flummox him into hemming and hawing and blustering. Robert Tracinski has 19 more questions for the amusement of the town hall mobsters.
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