Letter to Congressional Delegation on the Kennedy HC Reform Bill

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071602242.html
Sir, for the reasons cited in the accompanying article – summary, this bill is going to cost the fortune we’ve already spent – I vehemently oppose the current health care reform bill.

I do not defend the status quo of US health care – government interventions have resulted in a system that is dysfunctional, over expensive and less effective than it could be. However, government interventions designed to limit the impact of previous government interventions is literally like fighting fire with fire – in the land of the free, shouldn’t we just try freedom first? In other words, doesn’t it make more sense to remove existing government interventions first before trying to ‘fix’ what we broke when those interventions were introduced in the first place?

I ask you examine the work of Herzlinger, Kling, and Porter to find the many options for reforming health care which would work based on INCREASED liberty vice increased Federal government control.

The President’s climate bill, health care reform, the stimulus, increased powers for the Federal Reserve, and Judge Soto Mayor – “No please don’t.”