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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (1537)1/25/2007 10:58:20 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
When you change a system to limit an organization's ability to respond to market changes

Limiting a subsidy or targeted tax break isn't reasonably construed as "limiting an organizations ability to respond to market changes", and if you want to construe it that way then such "limiting" is clearly not a limiting of their rights. They have not rights to special targeted tax breaks or subsidies.

Fact: Medical costs in the US are rising at multiples of the rate of general inflation.

And the special tax breaks for the health care is one of the reasons it is doing so.

Fact: The current system has caused patients to view healthcare as a free good, which has caused to demand to become nearly unlimited.

And the special tax breaks for the health care is one of the reasons it is doing so.

Answer: Government has failed at everything they ever regulated

All the more reason to limit or eliminate special targeted tax breaks that the government has used to try and interfere in the health care insurance market. Targeted tax breaks are in a sense a form of regulation. They reward certain behavior, and punish other behavior.

Also your statement isn't literally true, unless you count anything short of total perfection as failure. The government's record with regulation may not exactly be good, but it isn't perfectly 100% faulty.
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