Hsieh LTE in The Economist

 Posted by on 27 October 2008 at 11:35 pm  Activism, Health Care
Oct 272008
 

The October 23, 2008 edition of The Economist has printed another LTE of mine, this time on Massachusetts’ health care “reform”. This one is in the print edition (as opposed to my first LTE there which was online-only.)

They did minor editing, but kept the central meaning intact. The letter is the 4th one down:

Freedom to choose

SIR – The Massachusetts system of “universal” health care remains afloat only because of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal support (“In need of desperate remedies“, October 18th). One reason costs are so high in Massachusetts is that individuals are forced to purchase benefits they neither need nor want. Under any system of mandatory insurance, the state must necessarily define what constitutes an acceptable insurance policy, meaning that individuals are buying insurance on terms influenced by lobbyists and bureaucrats, rather than based on a rational assessment of their needs. If the federal government adopts the Massachusetts system on a national scale, it would merely multiply those problems fifty-fold.

Dr Paul Hsieh
Co-founder Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine
Sedalia, Colorado

   
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