More healthcare anxiety
Heather Richardson Higgins writes in the Wall Street Journal that the Democratic approach to healthcare runs against “who we are as Americans”:
In these proposals, human beings aren’t individuals with freedom to contract as they see fit and make their own best judgments, but interchangeable widgets for whom rules should be fashioned and enforced based on age, or quality of life, or some other metric. Bureaucrats would evaluate whether one is young enough to warrant a pacemaker or a hip, or sufficiently long gone from a hospital to justify readmission. Medicine would become a one-size-fits-all bureaucracy, not an art, in which the physician would face real risks for deciding that the bureaucratically approved “effective treatment” isn’t what works in a particular case.
It makes no sense to try to achieve a bipartisan consensus when the fundamentals underlying the Democratic approach are so contrary to the entire foundational idea of who we are as Americans. We’re the country that believes that individuals have the right not to have their decisions interfered with, and that individuals are best able to make those decisions that most affect their life and happiness. Nothing could be more central to that than the ability to control one’s own health and the health options of loved ones.
I can’t tell if it’s strategy or substance, but the opposition to any kind of public takeover of healthcare has subtly shifted in the last week. Previously, critics were worried that a government bureaucracy would result in poor quality of care and bad management. Now the opposition is rallying around idea that a solution that requires bureaucratic decision-making either results in morally dubious outcomes, or actually threatens values of liberty and choice.
–Sam
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