Obamacare’s authoritarian problem
Townhall – David Harsanyi –
11/1/2013
CNN.com contributor Sally
Kohn wrote a piece titled "A canceled health plan is a good thing."
You're not getting what you want; you're getting what you need. Kohn --
unsheathing the "public good" justification that opponents of same-sex
marriage regularly use -- failed to mention even once that the president
explicitly assured Americans while campaigning for the Affordable Care Act that
"if you like your plan, you can keep it." NBC News is reporting that
the Obama administration knew that millions of Americans would probably lose
their current health plans because of the implementation of the law, yet it
went on lying.
It's almost as if some
people believe lying is acceptable -- even preferable -- if the political
outcomes are morally pleasing to them. Many Obamacare supporters, in fact, are
beginning to sound as if they couldn't care less about process, the law, order,
competence or anything that undermines the goal of putting your health care
choices into more capable hands.
In health care and other things, we often pick plans that offer us something we value above other things. Americans don't need all their plans to look the same. Maybe some of them like the customer service; maybe some like the stability of staying with one company for many years. This is why having 600 toasters in an open market is preferable to having a handful of choices in a fabricated "market" exchange -- and why choice is better for us than coercion.
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