10 Questions: About Health Care - Couric & Co.

10 Questions: About Health Care - Couric & Co.

>>Expanding government control over the financing and delivery of medical services will guarantee even bigger bureaucracy,<< Not necessarily bigger, just different. Ask any healthcare provider or patient which bureaucracy they'd rather deal with, Medicare or a private insurer, and you'll have your answer as to why this a bad argument for conservatives to make. We, the people, have control over our governement bureaucrats, we have none over the privateeers.

>> higher taxes,<< I know this is supposed to scare us (like invoking Castro), but the trade off is no health care premiums and higher salaries (as no more healthcare expenditures out of our total compensation). So, certainly, if this is done in a progressive manner, the top 5% may lose a little, but everyone else will be far better off.

>> and increasingly detailed regulations governing the delivery of care.<< I refer you back to my first comment.

>> Conservative candidates generally emphasize the need to re-energize the market<<
I'd say that the performance of the healthcare sector, particularly insurers and Pharma, suggest no lack of "energy."

>> and make individuals and families the key decision-makers in the system.<< Amen to that, but the author must really live in an alternate universe if he thinks that will EVER happen with private insurers!

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