How to Get Washington out of Health Care – Patriot Update

How to Get Washington out of Health Care – Patriot Update: Three things must happen if the American people are to take back their healthcare system in order to optimize cost and quality through private-sector reforms. First and most importantly, the financial impetus for federal intervention must be minimized or eliminated by limiting federal liability for healthcare costs. The Ryan plan can do this, and something akin to it should be adopted as soon as possible. Second, ObamaCare must be repealed to prevent destruction of the private healthcare market before it can be properly reformed. Third, Congress must stop the degradation of the quality of care by prohibiting the federal government from regulating medical decision-making.

This last point is critical but nearly absent from public discussion. Neither approval of a Ryan-type plan nor the repeal of ObamaCare, though both are widely recognized as essential and require no further comment here, will do enough to eliminate the massive regulatory regime already in existence and under which we will soon have socialized medicine in all but name. To do that, Congress must go beyond cost and halt the ongoing centralization of regulatory control over healthcare quality, something most readily done by halting Washington’s ongoing annexation of the power of the individual states to regulate the practice of medicine.

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