Wednesday, September 19, 2007
News Jason Pye responds
Posted by Andisheh Nouraee on Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 7:09 PM
Jason Pye has responded on his blog to a crack I made in my "Atlanta blogs today" post this morning.
Writes Jason:
I complete agree that our current system is broken. However, Health insurance and healthcare are mutually beneficial exchanges of commerce. It is hardly dystopian because there is no force involved, unlike the police power of government that Andy seems to so desperately want.
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It's police power to keep health care costs down? Oh wait, no, it's police power to prevent companies from denying sick people any coverage at all ("Sorry you're dying; I know you can't get better without health care but we can't give you health care until you stop dying first.").
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Call me old-fashioned, but back in the day, it was the government's business to take of the very basics of a society: health, security and education. I can dig the Republican mantra of less government, much as I might disagree with it in execution, but dag; you can't trust your government to handle the very basics?
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