Unhealthy Wisconsin
John Stossel comments on the Wisconsin’s State Legislature passing “Healthy Wisconsin” which will give “free” health care to everyone in the state. As usual, he is right on the money. Although I am not sure if the progressives (btw, what a contradiction in term) will learn the right lesson from this example, since they have not learned the lesson from other countries’ failed experiments with socialized medicine. Perhaps, they do not want to learn? Perhaps for some of them everyone having the same and equal access to health care (even if bad, and it will be worse than what we have now and definitely worse than what we could have in a truly market driven system) is more important than the life saving and improving innovations, and the cost reductions a free market health care system brings. But, on the other hand, could one really suppose them to be that misguided?
November 13th, 2007 at 4:04 am
Regretfully, socialized health care seems to be more and more attractive to people. Constituents of socialized health care are notorious for emotional pull — which works wonderfully with the “average Joe” who pays little to no attention to the workings of this nation. A commercial is currently running on national television that includes a series of children asking the goverment to stick to its promises, and to give them health care. What a better way to emotionally manipulate people than by using children? Sadly, it is fallacies such as these that has encouraged more than one person I know to support socialized health care.