AZJoe
08-29-2016, 10:15 AM
The Right Lessons from Obamacare's Meltdown
by ron paul : http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2016/august/28/the-right-lessons-from-obamacares-meltdown/
The decision of several major insurance companies to cut their losses and withdraw from the Obamacare exchanges, combined with the failure of 70 percent of Obamacare's health insurance co-ops, will leave one in six Obamacare enrollees with only one health insurance option. If Obamacare continues on its current track, most of America may resemble Pinal County, Arizona, where no one can obtain private health insurance. Those lucky enough to obtain insurance will face ever-increasing premiums and a declining choice of providers.
allowing consumers to pick from a variety of government-controlled health insurance plans is not a true market; instead it is playing market.
Instead of calling for a repeal of Obamacare and all other government interference in the health care market, many are calling for increased penalties to force them onto the exchanges. Others are renewing the push for a public option, forcing private companies to compete with taxpayer-funded entities
everyone including libertarians shares the goal of creating a safety net. Libertarians just understand that a moral and effective safety net is one voluntarily provided by individuals, religious organizations, and private charities.
Government has no legitimate authority to take money from taxpayers to fund health care or any other type of welfare program. Contrary to myth, low-income individuals did not go without care in the days before the welfare state.
The problems plaguing the health care system are rooted in the treatment of health care as a "right." This justifies government intervention causes increasing prices and declining quality and supply. Ironically, those who suffer most from government intervention are the very people proponents of these programs claim to want to help. The first step in restoring a health care system that meets the needs of all people is to start treating health care as a good that can and should only be provided via voluntary actions of free people.
by ron paul : http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2016/august/28/the-right-lessons-from-obamacares-meltdown/
The decision of several major insurance companies to cut their losses and withdraw from the Obamacare exchanges, combined with the failure of 70 percent of Obamacare's health insurance co-ops, will leave one in six Obamacare enrollees with only one health insurance option. If Obamacare continues on its current track, most of America may resemble Pinal County, Arizona, where no one can obtain private health insurance. Those lucky enough to obtain insurance will face ever-increasing premiums and a declining choice of providers.
allowing consumers to pick from a variety of government-controlled health insurance plans is not a true market; instead it is playing market.
Instead of calling for a repeal of Obamacare and all other government interference in the health care market, many are calling for increased penalties to force them onto the exchanges. Others are renewing the push for a public option, forcing private companies to compete with taxpayer-funded entities
everyone including libertarians shares the goal of creating a safety net. Libertarians just understand that a moral and effective safety net is one voluntarily provided by individuals, religious organizations, and private charities.
Government has no legitimate authority to take money from taxpayers to fund health care or any other type of welfare program. Contrary to myth, low-income individuals did not go without care in the days before the welfare state.
The problems plaguing the health care system are rooted in the treatment of health care as a "right." This justifies government intervention causes increasing prices and declining quality and supply. Ironically, those who suffer most from government intervention are the very people proponents of these programs claim to want to help. The first step in restoring a health care system that meets the needs of all people is to start treating health care as a good that can and should only be provided via voluntary actions of free people.