Healthcare Alternatives

Peggy Noonan has a column out today that provides a bit of analysis on the Dems and their debates this week.  I say a bit because it was only one column and there is so much there!  Their depressing, doom and gloom, dystopian view of America was a bit shocking.  And their solutions are even more shocking.  Not sure if it's behind a pay wall but here's a link to the column.  

The whole column is pretty good (except the part about Williamson) but there are two pull quotes that describe the healthcare quagmire in a nutshell.  This whole issue is so complicated and filled with contradictions, that I really look for simple answers.  Here's a pretty simple explanation for "medicare for all" that I (like Peggy) think could work.

I never minded the phrase “Medicare for All” because I figured it meant this: “We would like Medicare or some other governmental entity to be available to all who need it, and will come up with ways to ease them in and give people in trouble a break. What everyone wants is the plastic card in the wallet that says you’ve got coverage, so the ambulance isn’t turned away and the kids are treated. We can work this out. We’re America.”

America would respond to that. A great nation must take care of its stressed, its incapable, its unlucky.

But the Dems seem to want all or nothing.  Here's what many of them tout.

But I don’t think that the American people understood, at least until the first debates, that Medicare for All means this: “All private insurance is abolished, we’re taking it away, you’re going to be forced into a program we’ll run, we’re going to squish this down on your head, the hospitals will have to conform with our directives whether they bankrupt it or not, and the health-insurance industry and its jobs will be extinguished.”

And on top of that we will all have to pretend the cost of this will come from savings due to reduced paperwork, or a tax on the wealthy.

It’s all so crazy. I heard no one in the debates say, “Guys, you are making a mistake to give the state all the power in this area. The government can rarely make things dramatically better in huge and complicated matters like this, but it is always capable of making it worse.”

"It's all so crazy"... Yes it is.  Add in the debacle at the border which is largely their fault, the climate change hysteria, the homeless crises, the atrocious conditions of cities run by Demorats, and so many other travesties,  their policies ahve proven to be a death spiral.  The other side isn't perfect, but it's a damn site better almost anything the Dems are proposing.