No Demand for the Moral Imperative

Forty-six million Americans are currently without health care insurance. They do not have the income to demand it, yet the cost continues to rise in a deflationary trend. Just exactly how is that?

The SCHIP, for example, provided funds for price increases. It pulls up the cost without providing the income necessary to demand the cost come down. Rather, the tax funding provides for unconditional payment of the price; that is, without any demands. The income that is being provided is to command the price up, and that distribution deprives the income necessary to demand the price come down.

A market demand of 46 million is surely enough to demand the price come down if they have the income to demand it. Government providing the income by tax and subsidy does not, very clearly, demand the cost control needed to reform the system.

Paying the price on command is being masqueraded as a moral imperative.

Every American deserves health care, and every American deserves the income necessary to demand it at a an affordable price determined by the logic of collective action in a free and unconsolidated, competitive marketplace.

Ensuring a free-market mechanism in priority includes the pricing and organized practices of health care professionals and the AMA, as well as insurers. That will be the reform that both controls costs and satisfies the moral imperative.