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The LA Times Didn't Ask Us
Did you see the LA Times article Dec. 1 saying the "consensus"is already in the universal care camp?
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Comment by Paul Hsieh, MD on December 15, 2008 at 6:00pm -
They did at least print a rebuttal LTE I submitted (3rd in the section "Health Care Debate"):
The government should not be guaranteeing "universal healthcare." Healthcare is a need, not a right. Rights are freedoms of action, not automatic claims on goods and services that must be produced by another. There's no such thing as a "right" to a car or an appendectomy. Whenever the government attempts to guarantee a service such as healthcare, it must control it, leading to Canadian-style rationing and waiting lists.
Instead of universal healthcare, we need free-market reforms, such as allowing patients to purchase insurance across state lines and use health savings accounts for routine expenses, and allowing insurers to sell inexpensive, catastrophic-only policies to cover rare but expensive events. Such reforms could reduce costs and make insurance available to millions who cannot currently afford it.
Paul Hsieh, MD
Sedalia, CO
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