"Some liberals, believing that government should step in as employers withdraw,
support a European-style, single-payer health care system. That would be fine if
we were Europeans. But Americans, who are more individualistic and pluralistic,
will not likely embrace a system that forces them to defer to the central
government when it comes to making fundamental health care choices."
Yeah, the elderly are practically rioting in the streets to get rid of Medicare, aren't they? What a self-serving load of hogwash. It's easy enough to just say you are ideologically against any kind of reform involving a single payer type solution. It's another thing to blame it on the "American Character", as if this is some unchanging monolith, or ever was.
"We shouldn't disrupt the lives of those who are happy with the insurance they
have."
Mr. Brooks apparently doesn't realize what a vanishingly small number of people this is these days.In the end, Brooks advocates yet another half-baked idea that tinkers aroun the edges and fails to provide real healthcare security for all Americans.
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