The United States has the best health care in the world -- but because of its inefficiencies, also the most expensive. The fundamental problem with the 2,074-page Senate health-care bill (as with its 2,014-page House counterpart) is that it wildly compounds the complexity by adding hundreds of new provisions, regulations, mandates, committees and other arbitrary bureaucratic inventions.
Worse, they are packed into a monstrous package without any regard to each other. The only thing linking these changes -- such as the 118 new boards, commissions and programs -- is political expediency. Each must be able to garner just enough votes to pass. There is not even a pretense of a unifying vision or conceptual harmony.
The result is an overregulated, overbureaucratized system of surpassing arbitrariness and inefficiency. . .
The bill is irredeemable. It should not only be defeated. It should be immolated, its ashes scattered over the Senate swimming pool.
Then do health care the right way -- one reform at a time, each simple and simplifying, aimed at reducing complexity, arbitrariness and inefficiency.
Monday, November 30, 2009
QOTD
Charles Krauthammer in Friday's Washington Post:
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> The bill is irredeemable. It should not only be defeated. It should be immolated, its ashes scattered over the Senate swimming pool
Preferably along with at least one or two senators at the same time.
And the three reforms, according to Doc K, are:
1. Medical Malpractice tort reform.
2. Breaking up the state insurance cartels. National market.
3. Repealing the tax exemption for corporate employer insurance programs.
Voila.
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