When Hawaii tried to provide health care free of charge to children, the program went bankrupt. Reality is that you cannot give something away and expect for it to be used efficiently and conservatively.

This is precisely why the rule in the constitution that says what is not listed as the federal government’s responsibility is left up to the individual states. The Federal Government can print money without regard to efficiency or conservation (and risk our prosperity in the process). Under the new system, we will replace some fat of the insurance companies with a massive bureaucracy that neither provides health care better or cheaper or fair. Since it cannot go bankrupt until the whole country does, we are giving our right to health care (they will determine how much we get) and our general welfare (the economy, stupid) over to the Federal Government.

There is a way for the Federal Government to implement a plan that does not introduce inefficiency and encourages competition for lower prices and better service. If only they follow these rules…

1. A corporation should not gain any benefit that an individual cannot. If corporations can buy health care for employees and not pay taxes on it, and individual should be able to do the same for himself.

2. Wealth should not be taken unless it is distributed evenly. In this way, the government will not need to set up a bureaucracy to determine what people get and how they spend it. 320 million people making their own best choices have a far better chance of choosing what is better for them than a million government experts. No reason to pay government to give us money, just give us the money.

Listen to me!