Health-Care "Reform": It's All About Power ~ By Sheldon Richman

Commentary from Campaign For Liberty

By Sheldon Richman Published 11/20/09 © 2009 Future of Freedom Foundation If the politicians who are bent on redesigning the medical and medical-insurance industries really wanted only to curb rising prices and help the uninsured get coverage, they would have zeroed in on the previous government interventions that created those problems. Instead, they are pushing grand schemes to turn our medical decision-making over to bureaucrats. That indicates that the so-called reform campaign is about power. Medical care is too expensive. Prices for services rise faster than other prices, and there's reason to believe much of the money is wasted. Expensive medical care equates to expensive insurance, which prices some people out of the market. This has been called a failure of the free market, but that can't be: There is no free market. I defy the advocates of government control to name one aspect of medicine or insurance that government doesn't dominate. The anti-market system politicians have put in place -- as pleasing as it is for the insurance and pharmaceutical industries and organized medicine -- harms the public. Yet it would be easy for them remove the harmful interventions. [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE]