CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Kill The Bills: Do Health Reform Right. “Insuring the uninsured is a moral imperative. The problem is that the Democrats have chosen the worst possible method — a $1 trillion new entitlement of stupefying arbitrariness and inefficiency. The better choice is targeted measures that attack the inefficiencies of the current system one by one — tort reform, interstate purchasing. and taxing employee benefits. It would take 20 pages to write such a bill, not 2,000 — and provide the funds to cover the uninsured without wrecking both U.S. health care and the U.S. Treasury.” But there’s no graft in that approach.
Source: Instapundit via Daily Pundit.
Insuring the uninsured is a moral imperative? Um….why, exactly?
The above paragraph is neoconservatism in a nutshell. What they fail to understand, is that government IS the problem.
Right now, some 40% of your medical costs go to pay for government bureaucracy. How many more people could afford health care insurance is it cost 40% less?
We don't need government "targeted measures," anymore than we need to have government insuring everyone.
Taxing is never a solution either. Taxing empowers the State at each individual's expense. Taxation is failure.
"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient,
for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution ... or have failed their purpose ... or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not
attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined
whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should be attacked for neglecting my constituents' 'interests,' I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty, and in that cause I am doing the very best I can."
- Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative.
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