How an Insurance Mandate Could Leave Many Worse Off
How government-mandated health insurance could be detrimental to many people it was intended to help. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Google News (Health)Review
This is the old Reagen welfare-queen argument, repackaged for today's issues. What Cowen's arguments prove is that we'd be better off with a federal program than one administered by the states, that our welfare system needs incremental phaseouts instead of all benefits ending at once, and that we need more government price controls over our healthcare system. Somehow I don't think those were the arguments he meant to make.
