On MSNBC, a New York Times reporter said that health insurance is “weird and complicated”, so “a free market doesn’t work very well”.
Sure. And all you need to fix it is more of the government regulations that made it weird and complicated in the first place.
so a NYT reporter basically said “I’m too stupid to understand it”. How that any different from everything else they fail to understand?
I’ve noticed that more than a few free market organizations are able to create websites that work.
The only thing weird about it, thanks to Obama, is that some people have to pay for it and Obama voters don’t, that’s pretty weird.
Isn’t there something about “equal protection” in the constitution?
We haven’t had a free market in health care since before WWII. But when you live in a town where large swaths of property have been rent controlled since WWII, I suppose you get a distorted idea of what a free market is. I recall reading a newspaper article back in the 1980s in which they mentioned that 50% of health care money was controlled by government (at all levels, not just Fed). The percentage is higher now, of course. Anyone that thinks there’s a “free market” in something when the government’s been in control of over half of it for over 30 years is an idiot.
Anyone who has worked in a health environment knows that OSHA, HHS, and too many other alphabetic soup agencies will basically tell the health care entity how to run their business. Rules cover not only what can be done or must be done but also what kind of realtionships between entities, doctors, and even their suppliers are allowed.