If I argue "when healthcare coverage is outlawed, only outlaws will have healthcare coverage", I suspect "conservatives" to scoff and tell me I'm stupid to think they're trying to "outlaw" healthcare coverage.
But they're wrong. Being against HealthCare Reform and against ObamaCare (and and and) almost always goes with a package that includes being in favor of Free Market Solutions. These guys will always spout the standard suite of platitudes:
- the market will always find a fair balance on its own
- the market brings innovation to satisfy all needs of every market segment
- the competition of the market will force prices down so everybody can get it on the benefits
- everything is good as long as government stays out of it completely
But outlawing coverage is (effectively) exactly what happens. In a system of completely unfettered capitalism, the Market is the law, and your paycheck is Law Enforcement.
In that system, what's the difference between being unable to buy it and being forbidden by law to possess it?
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