Free market is the cure

The proposed health care reform is designed to force private health insurers out of business and force virtually everyone into a government health care system. Government-run health care necessarily leads to rationing, because it cannot pay for everyone’s care. The elderly and the disabled are especially likely to be left out, because they cannot make the “contributions to society” that a young, able-bodied person could. People would often be unable to obtain medical care for their loved ones. The government could also decide that people with undesirable political or religious views are not worth treating.

Thus, government health care would devalue human life by limiting health care to those considered worth keeping alive. Rationing medical care to increase the government’s power and the people’s dependency on the government violates the fundamental human right to life.

Economic realities make it impossible for everyone to receive all the medical care they need for free. However, there are far better ways to make health care as widely available as possible than allowing only the government to pay for health care, and limiting it to those the government sees fit to treat. We need free markets, not government control.

Rebecca Larsen

Spangle