Wall Street Journal Op-ed: Who Pays for Health Insurance

Hooray for the the Wall Street Journal. (If this keeps up, they are wil need to start paying me as a sponsor)

In "Who Pays for Health Insurance" there are multiple things that are right. First, they praise President Bush.........before you slit my throat read on. Second, they look at the health care system as a market.

Ok, here is the support for Bush (the only reason you might not know this is that he seems to have a communications team that actually works against him.) President Bush's health care proposals are excellent, innovative, and should be bi-partisan. Actually, in my opinion the only reason they aren't bi-partisan are because of the politics and not the ideals. One of the big changes in the President's proposal is to uncouple health care from employers. Everyone, that purchased insurance would be able to receive a tax credit. This would allow more people to get insurance, it would increase insurance stability, and it would also change the market by letting people know exactly how much they spend on health care.

Amazing right? It sounds like he has a heart.

I have heard about this plan in my wonky legislative meetings, but I don't think that I have heard this in the media at all. That is until now, and at that you have to count the WSJ op-eds as the media (The are not.)

And to talk about health care as a market is amazing. Not too many people understand the fact that health care is a market, but that is only because government has distorted it so much already that it barely resembles one. Users of health care need to have choices, and currently they do not. Employers dictate what insurance plan their employees are offered. Inurance companies decide what drugs the user can have........etc. This system is awful.

If you haven't done so................I don't care how much you hate him.........check out the President's Health Care Reform Proposals. (I will put a link here....hopefully tomorrow.)