Sally Pipes, president of Pacific Research Institute who has spoken for JLF on the subject of health care, contributes a sharp analysis of Hillary Clinton’s proposal for remaking American health care here.
She doesn’t care for it: “The answer is not more taxes, more costly premiums and more government regulation. The solution is tax-code changes that create a level playing field between health spending by individuals and groups and between insurance and out-of-pocket-spending. We also need to ensure the freedom of people to purchase insurance under the laws of any state.”
As I have often said before, people with the central-planning mindset always overestimate the good that their plans will do, while underestimating — and usually completely ignoring — the harm they will do. That’s emphatically the case here.
