A liberal North Carolina health care policy analyst says:
There really isn’t much of a dispute here – we need to improve our health system. That first means real reform that reduces the huge amounts of money we spend on unnecessary, ineffective, and often harmful drugs and treatments pushed by the drug companies and the health industry. There is no way that a single person, even if he were a medical doctor with ten PhDs, can figure that out on his own. [emphasis added]
Since no one person can figure it out, he wants to have a few people figure it out for the rest of us. To review medical technologies, for example, he suggests “a collaboration between major medical centers, national institute of medicine, and involve device makers and inventors of new tech and procedures.” If you think I’m making this up, here’s the rest of the paragraph started above.
That’s why we need government intervention and why all the wasted words of the right on “spending your health dollars wisely” are just so much hot air. [emphasis added]
There. It’s in writing. Folks on the Left don’t trust us to make our own decisions. And no, they don’t trust us to make our own decisions on food, housing, cars, or water, either.
