A good point about arrogance from Stossel:
They intend, as the New York Times puts it, "to reinvent the nation's health care system".
Let that sink in. A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.
Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life, based on subjective value judgments and personal information as they delicately balance their interests, needs and wants. Who is in a better position than they to tailor those choices to best serve their purposes? Yet the politicians believe they can plan the medical market the way you plan a birthday party.
As Lowry says, these guys are reckless. Recklessness is always a bad thing, and few good things happen in pubs after midnight.
Am Thinker: Obamacare is a sick joke. A quote:
The World Health Organization ranked the United States No. 1 out of 191 countries for being responsive to patients' needs, including providing timely treatments and a choice of doctors. Among those currently insured, 84% are satisfied with their healthcare.
And here's something actually constructive: How to make health care reform bipartisan
And as Althouse says:
The Democrats have dumped a drastic, complicated health care bill on us and they are ramming it through before we can even figure it out. That's what matters, not the fact that the party out of power is squawking about it.
And at NRO:
Trying to impose Government Controlled Healthcare on a nation that doesn’t want it is significantly harder than running against a candidate for president who gets the nomination from the incumbent party whose leader had approval ratings in the mid to upper 20’s (and who’s base didn’t really like him).
And a repeat: How is abortion "healthcare'? It's about killing, isn't it? Not on my nickel. I refuse to pay for your abortion, or your tummy-tuck.
Why the heck do we have to spend so much energy trying to stop the government from doing stuff for us? We can tie our own shoes. As Sissy says, "Just leave us alone." We would rather figure it out for ourselves. We aren't morons.
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