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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

For Healthcare The Best Government Plan Is No Plan

One of the most difficult lessons for people to understand and learn is that sometimes you just have to "let go." That is, you must accept the fact that not everything can be controlled and trying to do so sometimes can make a situation worse. This is never more true than when it concerns government intervention in the economic affairs of the citizenry. Think of the controversy around the implementation and imposition of ObamaCare. Critics have hammered away at the disaster surrounding the opening of the government's enrollment website, at the loss of coverage by millions of health insurance policy holders, or the jolting higher premiums or deductibles that many people have discovered they must pay under the "Affordable" Care Act. 

Everyone is Looking for a Healthcare Plan 

What has been the response of President Obama's administration and by other supporters of government compulsory health insurance? Besides an illusionary insistence that "now" everything is working just fine, and that people will just "love" this government-mandated "good product" as soon as everyone has had to live under it for a while, their reply has been, "Well, if you think that the Affordable Care Act is so bad, what is your plan for replacing it with something better? What is your alternative agenda for assuring that all Americans have high quality and reasonably priced health insurance and medical care?" 

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