At least not one that can maintain the virtues of a free market and the independence of the American consumer.
This post is a brief summary accompanied by a link to an article written by Justin Stapley for the NOQ Report, a Christian Conservative News Site. For more links as well as insights, short-posts, and general ramblings from Justin Stapley (editor and owner of The Liberty Hawk), visit The Editor’s Corner.
For being the center of the political universe for almost a decade, there is relatively little discussion of the Affordable Care Act anymore. The new clarion call from the left is Medicare for All. And, the Right has gone surprisingly silent on the issue (perhaps because they failed to follow their decade’s long rhetoric with any substantive action).
This post is linked to an article I wrote for the NOQ Report over a year ago, and it’s mind-spinning to realize just how archaic arguments over Obamacare feel when it’s actually still a relatively fresh wound to the republic. But, while the great debates of our current news cycle have moved beyond this once salient issue, the arguments I made in the article remain true today.
Obamacare, perhaps unlike any other recent government action, demonstrates the folly of mixed economics. You cannot have an ostensibly open and free market while the government stands at the nucleus of the process. And, as the disastrous experience of COVID-19 has taught us, government bureaucracy is singularly ill-equipped to respond to dynamic events and changing realities.
While the political conversation has moved on, for the moment, those of us who understand the dangers of centralized economic planning should continue to point out that what the healthcare system needs is a renewed sense of consumer freedom. A stronger, quicker reacting, and, yes, more affordable healthcare system will come when we take effort to put choices, options, and decisions in the hands of each individual patient, not by doubling down on offering fewer and fewer choices to Americans through creating a unitary, government-provided bureaucratic mess.Read the full article:
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