If the definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over and expecting a different result, even though you continually get the same result, why is Congress acting in such an insane way? Peter Suderman, writing in the Wall Street Journal today points out some of the many times that universal health has been tried and failed.
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously envisioned the states serving as laboratories, trying “novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” And on health care, that’s just what they’ve done.
Like participants in a national science fair, state governments have tested variants on most of the major components of the health-care reform plans currently being considered in Congress. The results have been dramatically increased premiums in the individual market, spiraling public health-care costs, and reduced access to care. In other words: The reforms have failed.
Ant the article concludes:
Despite these state-level failures, President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are pushing forward a slate of similar reforms. Unlike most high-school science fair participants, they seem unaware that the point of doing experiments is to identify what actually works. Instead, they’ve identified what doesn’t—and decided to do it again.
via Peter Suderman: The Lesson of State Health-Care Reforms – WSJ.com.
Yet, in spite of all of the evidence our ‘leaders’ are convinced that if they try it one more time on a grand scale it will yield cost savings and better care for everyone!
Yes, there are ways to cut costs in our health care system and some have been proposed by people like Sen. Tom Coburn, MD and other doctors in Congress, but their practical plans are ignored or rejected, out of hand! What do they know that seasoned politicians don’t? They know where the potential savings are and they understand the system. The politcians like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are so consumed with the desire for the power that having 50% of the voters dependent on Government provides to them, that they don’t see the folly of their plans! How can we get their attention in a lawful and peaceful way??
