Gary Locke, the Secretary of Commerce has an op-ed piece in the August 28 Wall Street Journal “Fixing Health Care is Good for Business”
I doubt that anyone would argue that fixing health care would indeed be good for business and everyone else, but where is the fix? About the only positive in all this so far is that some cost shifting for the uninsured may be reduced, but that is likely offset by higher taxes, additional cost shifting from Medicare and perhaps a public option, not to mention additional benefit mandates and additional administrative burdens for employers. The bottom line is that health care costs will continue to rise only from a higher base for at least the next ten years if the current version of “reform” is enacted.
I sometimes wonder how otherwise intelligent people can get themselves to support the party line when they must know that what they are asked to say defies common sense and logic, not to mention the facts generated by other people equally as smart.
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