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When it comes to health care, government is NOT your friendAlways watch for the hidden costs that
usually far outweigh the benefits
Brendan Miniter writes about government managed health-care in
today's OpinionJournal.com, most of the article was fairly standard but this
paragraph caught my
eye.
What Tennessee and Massachusetts now have in common is that as lawmakers look for health insurance plans that are cheap enough for most people to afford, they're going to run headlong into the reality that buying health coverage is very expensive. The reason isn't just that health care across the country is expensive. It's also that health insurers are prohibited from offering coverage that pays for only catastrophic events, such as a serious injury or heart attack. Rules vary by state, but in most places insurers are forced to cover everything from routine checkups to chiropractic care. Remove these mandates, allow deductibles and "copays" to be raised high enough, and in an instant the price for some health plans would fall to about that of dinner out and a movie for two. Bammo! There it is, the simple truth. Government restrictions and regulations have driven the cost of health insurance out of the reach of most Americans. At the same time, those same regulations have decreased the availability of medicine while increasing it's cost. It's a pattern that repeats again and again. The surest way to increase costs and decrease availability is to give the government control. Just ask General Motors. 
Posted: Wed - April 12, 2006 at 04:40 AM
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