Good intentions are not enough for health care reform

 From Sarah Palin


Comments former governor general public in Alaska Sarah Palin a symbol of death and rationing of health in August was among the first shots of the national struggle unprecedented reform of nursing. Would be at the time, some analysts sober criticism that Palin would gain traction have predicted. However, they found a positive response among conservative opponents of the Obama health care plans, where a battle between the advocates of reform and ugly right wing opponents.This weekend, Governor Palin back to healthcare in another posting on his official Facebook page the main points of discussion, you probably hear in the coming months of criticism of Republican efforts for the Obama administration reform health care debate. For the sake of debate, we will post the entire message. - John Irvine

Now that the Senate Finance Committee approved its bill of health is a good time to step back and look at the long-term consequences of its provisions should be adopted.

The bill prohibits insurance companies refuse coverage of people with pre-existing conditions and make the patients pay higher premiums. [1] He is the costs that it imposed on insurance companies, by which each of the range, which will pay in the theory of increasing the pool of insured offset purchase.

However, the maximum penalty for those who refuse to buy health insurance is $ 750. [2] Even factoring state aid, the cost of purchasing a plan is much more than $ 750. The result: Many people, especially young and healthy, is not simply buy the collection, selection, pay the fine instead. She wants to wait until they are sick to buy health insurance, confident in the knowledge that the insurer can not deny them coverage. Such a scenario is a perfect storm for a rising cost of health care and the creation of an Office program untenable.

Those that plan is of good intentions but good intentions are not enough to lead. There were good intentions behind the desire to increase homeownership for low-income Americans, Lower Austria, but to force financial institutions to provide loans to people who could afford it had terrible unintended consequences make. We all felt the impact of the financial collapse last year. Unintended consequences are always the result of top-down government plans to major proposals such as health care today, and we can not afford to ignore this development.

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