A Cornucopia of Health Care Fallacies
Sheldon Richman of the Foundation for Economic Education presents nine fallacies of health-care reform.
“…The way to rig a debate over public policy is never acknowledge the only genuine alternative to your proposal. Obama says, ‘I’m confident that when people look at the costs of doing nothing they’re going to say, we can make this happen.’ Why is ‘doing nothing’ the alternative to a conscious attempt to reinvent the healthcare industry? While it is true that doing nothing would be preferable to what Obama and his congressional allies want to do, it is not the best alternative. The best alternative is the free market.”
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