With all the debate about having National Health Care where the government guarantees insurance for everybody to reduce the uninsured, why haven't policies wonks and Congress looked to the states? The Jan 2010 issue of Reason discusses how NY, WA, MA and TN have all implemented some form of government health care to reduce the amounts of uninsured. MA famously implemented even imposed the dreaded individual mandate where all citizens are required to purchase health care. The result? The amount of uninsured have not dropped but insurance premiums have skyrocketed. Another example of government involvement with unintended consequences.
Point being, government run health care in the US is not new; it has been tried and failed in the states already. Why try again for everyone?
Dec 30, 2009
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