In Sunday's Washington Post there is an op-ed by George F. Will about the Democrat's health care reform plan and the president's agenda of equality through dependency.  The article goes on to point out some interesting facts like the fact that most uninsured people in the US are illegal immigrants or people in transition between jobs.  Those people in a job transition are never uninsured for very long.

The article goes on to question the president's statement that his health care plan will bring competition to the market.  The idea that government will bring completion is an absolute joke.  The government's health care doesn't need to run at a profit so it will under cut the private market which will lead to people opting out of their employer's plan for the government plan.

What I think will happen is once the majority of Americans are dependent on government health care, it will be used against anyone who proposes tax cuts.  The ad campaign will be something like this: a tax cut is a cut in your health care benefits.  This will put health care on par with social security as an untouchable items in politics. 

The real solution to the health care situation is to allow Americans to shop for private insurance.   Health insurance should not be an job related benefit for multiple reasons.  First off if you bought your own insurance, you would not have to worry about loss of coverage by switch jobs.  This will resolve the issue with rejected claims because of pre -existing conditions.  This will also cover the problems with people not having insurance between jobs because your coverage is no longer linked to your work.

The largest benefit of cutting the link between job and health insurance will be your ability to get the best coverage for you.  Most companies offer two plans: high deductible or low deductible.  The company negotiates for a plan that will meet the needs of the majority of it's employees.  I believe that if people got to shop for the best health care coverage, like they do for car insurance, they would be able to cut their individual cost for health care.

I think there is a significant movement in this country to punish the successful.  The health insurance companies all do very well so the government has chosen to attack them.  The fact that government run hospitals are inefficient and life saving drugs are over prices in the US are the real problems.  I do believe health care needs reform but not for the reasons liberals and democrats believe.  I think we need to embrace a free market solution for health care instead of the quasi entitlement approach we currently have in place.

President Obama believes that government should take care of all of it's citizens needs.  I find this concept against what the founding fathers wanted when they created this country.  I believe it to be anti-capitalism, anti-free markets and anti-American.  The constitution says "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" not Life, Liberty and the ENTITLEMENT of Happiness.

Source: Washington Post