Heath Care For All, At Any Cost

Kirsten Pow­ers in an op-ed in The New York Post makes the same immoral and irra­tional case that has been at the heart of use­ful idiot doc­tors’ push for State run national health care.

What will health-care reform cost?

This ques­tion has become the obses­sion dis­tract­ing us from the moral imper­a­tive to pro­vide health care to all Americans.

The rich­est, most pow­er­ful, most amaz­ing nation in the world should treat its cit­i­zens who fall ill bet­ter than some bro­ken Third World coun­try. If we can afford to try to rebuild Afghanistan with lit­tle hope of suc­cess, then argu­ing about pay­ing for Amer­i­cans to have health cov­er­age seems petty.

Yet no topic has got­ten more ink dur­ing the health-care debate than cost.

Just like the Iraq war debate where every­one was up in arms about how it was going to cost us bil­lions of dol­lars a year.… Oh, wait — that never hap­pened. (Why cost shouldn’t stop health-care reform).

Let’s put aside the folly of Obama’s Bush-esque redux act of nation build­ing in Afghanistan (yeah, that’s what we elected him for <roll eyes here>), and the aston­ish­ing state­ment that nobody cared about the cost of  war in Iraq (<roll eyes again> Ms. Pow­ers was unfor­tu­nately vaca­tion­ing on Pluto dur­ing the run up to the war and missed all the cost con­tro­versy — a war, by the way, a major­ity of Democ­rats tac­itly and cow­ardly sup­ported by giv­ing the Neo­con­ser­v­a­tives autho­riza­tion to go to war).

Yes, like the Neo­con­ser­v­a­tives before them, let all Lib­er­als ignore any cost, because what are costs com­pared to “lib­eral val­ues?”

There are Many Kinds of Costs

For instance, other rich, pow­er­ful, and amaz­ing nations didn’t let costs stand in the way of doing what was right, like:

A woman dying of can­cer was denied free National Health Ser­vice treat­ment in her final months because she had paid pri­vately for a drug to try to pro­long her life.” (NHS scan­dal: dying can­cer vic­tim was forced to pay).

Yes, this is cruel, but what’s at stake here is noth­ing less than assur­ing “the moral imper­a­tive to pro­vide health care to all.”

Each day, I’ll try to post exam­ples of other rich, pow­er­ful, and amaz­ing nations who refused to flinch from such tough actions in the hopes that we Amer­i­cans will learn that peo­ples from other rich, pow­er­ful, and amaz­ing nations are not made of tougher stuff then we, and if they can do these things to some of their sick and dying cit­i­zen, why we cer­tainty can gen­er­ate equally impres­sive exam­ples of com­mit­ment to a moral imper­a­tive our­selves, so help us God!

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Bet­ter, more afford­able health care requires free-market reforms: the free­dom to pur­chase health plans across state lines; tax reforms like “large” health sav­ings accounts; mak­ing health insur­ance portable, con­trolled by the indi­vid­ual rather than gov­ern­ment or an employer; mak­ing med­ical licenses portable, and more.

To read more about real solu­tions to the prob­lem of ris­ing heath care costs, see:

Pro-market Alter­na­tives to Demo­c­ra­tic Health Care Reform

See also:

• Why Isn’t Gov­ern­ment Health Care the Answer?
• What Should Be Done?
• FAQ: Consumer-Directed Health Care

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