The most harebrained reform ideas is government health care. Remember welfare programs and public housing and then taste the food at the national park monopolies. The only area of the federal government to show substantial improvement is the Postal Service because it has faced stiff private competition. Without understanding the issues or even the correct questions in health care policy, legislators provide blankets for coziness even as they ignore the missing bed. A patient's bill of rights is feel-goodism and fodder for the boy president and his sidekick father of the Internet.
Competition breeds quality and quantity which keeps prices down.
It helps also that we buy our own bread without clearance from a carbohydrate control center. It has been so long since there has been a free market in medical care that we are hard- pressed to think beyond the parameters of utilitarianism. To envision a restoration of the free market in medical care, one must understand few unassailable propositions. First, the United States has the finest health care system in the world. Changing it from its entrepreneurial roots will gut its quality.