In response, the government imposed price controls on Medicare and Medicaid. This zero-sum game added even more cost to the system. Many frustrated large corporations are now interested in socializing the health care system because it will transfer a great and growing cost burden onto other shoulders. Some aggressively lobbied for such a system during the first Clinton administration. But socializing the system is not the answer.
Health care is daunting and complex but understandable and manageable.
There is hope that such a system could actually develop. The principle of subsidiarity articulated in Centesimus Annus could very well be the philosophical fulcrum on which the health care system is reformed. The Health Insurance Portability Act of 1996 did not easily become law. Senator Ted Kennedy and other supporters of big government social and health care programs held up the legislation for several months and threatened to filibuster it into oblivion. The resulting compromise is limited to 750,000 participant accounts.