Cure for health-care ills is free market competition
BY RAND PAUL
OCTOBER 22, 2016
Before I was elected to the Senate in 2010, I spent my career as an eye surgeon helping Kentuckians see better. I still perform free eye surgeries several times a year, including earlier this month in Louisville.
I approach my job serving Kentucky in the Senate just as I do in medicine — diagnose the problem and identify the cure.
Though the debate over accessible and affordable health care may appear to be a debate over health care, it is really a debate over what type of economic system delivers the care patients need at the best price. What our country has now is a system of government mandates and price controls, which looks nothing like a real market.
What we need is a true marketplace, where families can choose the coverage they need, not the coverage a bureaucrat in Washington thinks they need, and shop and negotiate for the best price. Unfortunately, Obamacare has done the opposite.
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