It’s Hard to Argue with Stossel
He’s all up in universal health care’s grill.
Health-care expert John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis says there are “literally hundreds of studies from over the past 40 years that show preventive medical services usually increase medical spending … Contrary to popular belief, checkups for children and adults do not save the health care system money.”
If the policy elite really wanted cost-cutting competition, they would deregulate medicine. No one has ever found a better way to stimulate competition than freedom.
I whole heatedly believe that if you are interested in reducing the cost of health care you reduce the regulation. I just want to point out the irony that the state forces health care to be come absorbent in cost, via regulation, and then argues that the high cost is the justification for state intervention.