Friday, May 13, 2011

What If We Tried Cooperation?

The former Governor outlined a national approach like the one he ran on in 2008. Its core virtue is that it would equalize the tax treatment of health insurance, ending the destructive federal bias for employer-provided insurance over the individual market and encouraging a consumer market for competitive insurance and more efficient medicine. Health economists across the political spectrum have recognized this distortion for decades.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576319312743766234.html

This would be a powerful step forward, unfortunately, even those generally in favor of liberty don't realize how powerful and empowering it would be.  Cancel the absurd tax treatment of employer provided health care and remove health care coverage mandates, and you could significantly reduce the cost of health care without using ANY coercive government force.

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