Nationalizing Health Care is Not the Answer
- Jul 14, 2009 -
Health care could use some therapy, but what will really work?
The U.S. health care system may be sick, but the Obama administration's planned takeover may permanently cripple it, according to the ERLC's Richard Land.
"Our health care system is not a perfect system. It has significant flaws," Land said, while noting there are viable solutions to strengthen the system and benefit patients. While the U.S. health care system is burdened by its bureaucracy, greater government involvement will affect everyone negatively, particularly the elderly and the poor. Land believes many families will move from private insurance to a government-run program based on costs alone, but the quality and quantity of health care will be diminished.
"The only way the government can control health care is to ration it," Land said, saying older, weaker and chronically ill Americans will be the "losers" under a government plan.
In a recent interview, the ERLC’s Richard Land visited with John Goodman, head of the National Center for Policy Analysis, about his group's petition that calls for free market-based reform of health care.
What does Richard Land have to say about the push to nationalize healthcare?
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