Health Care Reform; an alternative to a failed model
Don’t let the MSM fool you. There is an alternative to their false dilemma of either socializing Americans’ healthcare or evilly allowing pregnant women and orphans to die horrible, diseased deaths. Nina Owcharenko writes, “A Principled Path to Rational Health Care Reform” over at the Heritage Foundation:
Congress will soon unveil legislation to reform the health care system. The policies outlined by President Obama during his campaign and those being discussed in Congress would centralize control over the health care system in Washington.
The chief danger of this approach is that it would directly interfere in the personal health care decisions of Americans. There is a much better alternative: a system that recognizes diversity across the states and differences in individual health care needs and preferences.
The article goes on to state the problems we’re facing in our current system, problems that both sides of this debate recognize and want fixed. Costs are already too high and are climbing, Americans are presented with fewer choices in their health plans than before, and a future that looks even less secure than what we have today. There are 2 competing visions: a centralized healthcare control approach which will inevitably remove from individual Americans the key decisions about their health care and a distributed control model that empowers the individuals and families faced with the medical issues.
The article is a short one but does raise important information in this debate. Really, it’s worth the couple of minutes of your time. Go have a look.
