The Daily Caller67%
Yes, Mr. President: A Free Market Can Fix Health Care (Policy Analysis) 93%
By null null93%
10/21/2009, 4:00:00 AM
Keywords: Health Care, Free Market, Policy Analysis, Obama, Medicare, Medicaid, Hsa, Competition, Regulation
BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Overconfidence Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Unattributed Quote, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 59.4% saturation with 262 hits. Analysis detected 1,533 faulty-reasoning hits from 441 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 88.1% and a BS Rank of 93% (1,562 of 21,180 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 92.60% of the article peer group.
In March 2009, President Barack Obama said, “If there is a way of getting this done where we’re driving down costs and people are getting health insurance at an affordable rate, and have choice of doctor, have flexibility in terms of their plans, and we could do that entirely through the market, I’d be happy to do it that way.”
This paper explains how letting workers control their health care dollars and tearing down regulatory barriers to competition would control costs, expand choice, improve health care quality, and make health coverage more secure.
First, Congress should give Medicare enrollees a voucher and the freedom to choose any health plan on the market.
Vouchers would be means-tested, would contain Medicare spending, and are the only way to protect seniors from government rationing.
Second, to give workers control over their health care dollars, Congress should reform the tax treatment of health care with “large” health savings accounts.
Large HSAs would reduce the number of uninsured Americans, would free workers to purchase secure health coverage from any source, and would effectively give workers a $9.7 trillion tax cut without increasing the federal budget deficit.
Third, Congress should break up state monopolies on insurance and clinician licensing.
Allowing consumers to purchase health insurance licensed by other states could cover one-third of the uninsured without any new taxes or government subsidies.
Finally, Congress should reform Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program the way it reformed welfare in 1996.
Block-granting those programs would reduce the deficit and encourage states to target resources to the truly needy.
The great advantage of a free market is that innovation and more prudent decisionmaking means that fewer patients will fall through the cracks.
In March 2009, President Barack Obama said, “If there is a way of getting this done where we’re driving down costs and people are getting health insurance at an affordable rate, and have choice of doctor, have flexibility in terms of their plans, and we could do that entirely through the market, I’d be happy to do it that way.”
This paper explains how letting workers control their health care dollars and tearing down regulatory barriers to competition would control costs, expand choice, improve health care quality, and make health coverage more secure.
The great advantage of a free market is that innovation and more prudent decisionmaking means that fewer patients will fall through the cracks.
Michael F.
Cannon is director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute and coauthor of Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.
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