Here we go again

 
So, HillaryCare is back, bigger and badder than ever. Sure, central planning has failed everywhere it’s been tried. Sure, the ‘broken’ American health-care system is the envy of the world. Sure, Hillary crashed and burned the last time she tried to impose socialism onto a huge segment of the domestic economy. None of that matters: she knows what’s right, and she’s going to save us all. So, she is once again revealed as that most dangerous of ideological crusaders, as convinced of the rightness of her cause as she is oblivious to her own abysmal and frightening ignorance.

No surprise. First she was a pampered college student; then she was a lawyer; then she was a politician’s wife; then she became (openly) a politician. She’s gone her whole life without ever holding a job. How can she be expected to understand basic economic principles?

I completed a Master’s degree in Health Systems, a month before September 11th steered me into a new career track, and my observation is that the greatest threat to America’s health care infrastructure — greater even than malpractice lawyers — is government. Government dictates, government policies, government funding, all of it is harmful to a system that operated (and operates beautifully) on an economic basis. Governmentalize any segment of the economy, and that segment immediately becomes less effective.

The biggest problem, one that started with some employers offering health insurance as a benefit to get around artificially imposed wage limits during World War II, is that people now think of health insurance as a right … and that it should cover all their health care costs. In terms of economics, that is simply insane. Everybody is going to have health issues, and everyone will have to deal with them, just as we deal with groceries (no ‘hunger insurance’ that pays for all our food) and transportation (is gasoline paid for by ‘fuel insurance’?) and every other cost of living. Health insurance is supposed to cover unseen emergencies that go beyond a normal budget … and those who need it least will get it for the best price, because that’s just how supply and demand works.

Canadians cross into the U.S. to get better care than their bloated, inefficient government-controlled health system can provide. So, by all means, let’s remake ours to match the Canadian model.

That’s the Hillary plan. And I wish her exactly the same success she had the last time through.