Ann's Health-Care Plan

Ann Coulter,Free Markets,Healthcare,Liberty

            

ANN COULTER has a 1-page health-care plan she is practically begging Republicans to steal. Sadly, they are too statist and chicken to stand by freedom. When she’s good Ms. Coulter is very very good (and funny as no other mainstream columnist is):

“We can’t have a free market in health insurance until Congress eliminates the antitrust exemption protecting health insurance companies from competition. If Democrats really wanted to punish insurance companies, which they manifestly do not, they’d make insurers compete.

The very next sentence of my bill provides that the exclusive regulator of insurance companies will be the state where the company’s home office is. Every insurance company in the country would incorporate in the state with the fewest government mandates, just as most corporations are based in Delaware today.

That’s the only way to bypass idiotic state mandates, requiring all insurance plans offered in the state to cover, for example, the Zone Diet, sex-change operations and whatever it is that poor Heidi Montag has done to herself this week.

President Obama says we need national health care because Natoma Canfield of Ohio had to drop her insurance when she couldn’t afford the $6,700 premiums, and now she’s got cancer.

Much as I admire Obama’s use of terminally ill human beings as political props, let me point out here that perhaps Natoma could have afforded insurance had she not been required by Ohio’s state insurance mandates to purchase a plan that covers infertility treatments and unlimited ob/gyn visits, among other things.

It sounds like Natoma could have used a plan that covered only the basics – you know, things like cancer.

The third sentence of my bill would prohibit the federal government from regulating insurance companies, except for normal laws and regulations that apply to all companies.

Freed from onerous state and federal mandates turning insurance companies into public utilities, insurers would be allowed to offer a whole smorgasbord of insurance plans, finally giving consumers a choice.

Instead of Harry Reid deciding whether your insurance plan covers Viagra, this decision would be made by you, the consumer. (I apologize for using the terms “Harry Reid” and “Viagra” in the same sentence. I promise that won’t happen again.)

My bill will solve nearly every problem allegedly addressed by Obamacare – and mine entails zero cost to the taxpayer. Indeed, a free market in health insurance would produce major tax savings as layers of government bureaucrats, unnecessary to medical service in America, get fired.

For example, in a free market, the government wouldn’t need to prohibit insurance companies from excluding “pre-existing conditions.”

Of course, an insurance company has to be able to refuse new customers with “pre-existing conditions.” Otherwise, everyone would just wait to get sick to buy insurance. It’s the same reason you can’t buy fire insurance on a house that’s already on fire.

That isn’t an “insurance company”; it’s what’s known as a “Christian charity.” …

The complete column is “My health-care plan.” Read it on WND.COM, where you can read my take tonight on the latest developments. Title: “Heeere’s Health-Scare.”

5 thoughts on “Ann's Health-Care Plan

  1. Nobody

    It’s amazing that statists make such use of the bounty of free markets for virtually every second of every day of their existence. Yet they have this mental disorder that thinks that the same system that delivers coffee from half-way around the planet for their morning latte for a few bucks a pound can’t figure out how to offer disease treatment in a cost effective way without their meddling. I really do think statists suffer from a mental disorder. They need treatment to alleviate their control freak tendencies.

    [I avoid the diseasing of evil and stupidity. People are responsible for their thoughts, actions and beliefs. They are not sick.]

  2. Steve Hogan

    Vastly superior to the Obama-Reid-Pelosi monstrosity winding its way through Congress. As Peter Schiff often observes, what parts of health care involve falling prices and improved quality? The very areas untouched by meddling federal bureaucrats: Laser eye treatments and cosmetic surgery. Producers compete on price and service, and consumers pay out-of-pocket.

    Wow, the person getting the care shops around for the best bargain. A free market? What a concept!

  3. Myron Pauli

    Ironically, the McCarran-Ferguson Act (1945) was passed to PREVENT the Federal regulators from screwing up health care – but it gave incentive to each state to put their own patchwork of garbage on. The fundamental truth is that Interstate Commerce should NOT BE REGULATED – period – by either the state or federal government. Any acts that go beyond enforcement of non-coercive contracts between free people and control of fraud/deception/theft constitute an abuse of liberty.

    Like the Republican party, Ann is spot on when she is in opposition to Democratic power grabs. Unfortunately, her eyesight is limited ONLY to Democratic party abuses, not Republican ones.

  4. james huggins

    Ann Coulter has again hit the nail on the head. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that open competition in an industry benefits the consumer where government interference benefits nobody.

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