DEAR EDITORS:
Will Ohio’s US Senate candidates JD Vance or Tim Ryan proposes banning America’s distinctive group medical insurance?
These of us who’ve really studied group well being’s operations acknowledge it as one of the vital radical and damaging concepts of the previous 80 years. Our refusal to grasp simply how subversive and ruinous group well being is when it was revived in 1943 to dam nationwide well being care has made it a gateway to a permissive setting for outright medical lunacies and slippery slopes.
The case to abolish group medical insurance would be the opening salvo within the epic battle to rectify distribution of American medication. The opinion chief in that battle will certainly be short-listed for a future Presidential Medal of Freedom, and given America’s extraordinarily irregular patterns of well being care consumption, even a Nobel Memorial Prize in economics.
Each Vance and Ryan have 4 months to develop into greatness. One candidate’s present well being care place quantities to the same old puddle of moist mush. Plus, funding banker Vance is aware of American enterprise has already labored round group well being’s onerous prices. Particularly, tactical bankruptcies, outsourcing, off-shoring, cost-shifting and wage-cutting. Ever marvel why that $28-an-hour manufacturing unit job is now $18 an hour?
Certainly, our legislators are longtime dupes for group well being. Republicans snored as group well being quietly undermined household because the primal mannequin of financial distribution. A single employee’s uninsured mom and father, or uninsured brother and sister, for instance, won’t ever be enrolled in his group well being coverage beneath so-called household plans. Democrats yawned as group well being, a job-killing excise tax on labor, gutted America of producing jobs.
Evil concepts with up-front attractiveness, corresponding to group medical insurance, are authorized and luxuriate in large fashionable help. See, for instance, the twentieth century’s now defunct governing philosophies. It is necessary to ask what the hidden prices of a beautiful however evil concept are.
We will not vote our manner out of evil. We will not reform our manner out of evil. We will not spend our manner out of evil. We will not focus-group our manner out of evil. We will not debate our manner out of evil on Sunday morning tv. We will solely hope the profitable candidate, Vance or Ryan, will lay the inspiration for Congress to abolish group medical insurance.
What of the 170 million Individuals now herded in group medical insurance? My guess is many shall be quietly glad to be free of the clutches of an odious undue enrichment scheme from which they benefited a lot, and the needs of which they understood so little.
JACK LABUCH
Niles
