"THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD'S LESSON FOR TODAY'S HEALTH CARE CRISIS"
We welcome your comments about our blurb "THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD'S LESSON FOR TODAY'S HEALTH CARE CRISIS." Do you agree or disagree? Do you have any insights that you would be willing to contribute to the discussion of this controversial subject? We think that the easily fixed health insurance mess that government intervention has created is literally a matter of life and death. It is of great concern that as a result of misdiagnosing the problem, many people believe that more government intervention will help, not understanding that more of the same will only make healthcare worse. We are sure that HillaryCare or any of the various misguided calls for more government amount to nothing more than a slippery slope leading to a lethal single payor system with all the efficiency of FEMA and all the compassion of the IRS. Have we drawn the correct lessons from history? Click on "POST A COMMENT" (First click on "COMMENTS" if you are on an index page) to add your thoughts.
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 11:09 AM
11 Comments:
Your article about health care is one of the best I have read. Too bad members of Congress are blind to the action of the market place.
Also see the Consumer-Directed Health Care Blog.
Your wild-eyed, amateurish political asides spoil otherwise interesting history.
Harry,
The fact that just for Medicare/Social Security, the "professionals" have run up an astronomical $74.8 trillion unfunded liability should be enough to make anyone sensible rather wild eyed – so, what exactly makes you think that "amateurish" is an insult?
Health care funding is a disaster because of "professionals" who think they are smarter than consumers (i.e., amateurs). Save us from insurance companies and government programs trying to run our lives, and let people make health care purchasing decisions according to their preferences, just as we do for food, clothing, transportation, housing and other essentials. Insurance has to be limited to unexpected large expenditures, not routine expenses, or we will all be bankrupted by misguided good intentions.
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