Health care decisions belong with the people

The powerful few should not have dominion over the entirety of society.

Americans have been duped into granting such control to Congress over our individual health care choices. No one can operate or innovate health care solutions independently of federal and state governmental controls. It is un-American to allow our elected politicians to limit our choices and freedoms of personal care, albeit within a sphere of rational and pragmatic intellect.

Why should young, healthy individuals be coerced into buying a product with features they deem unnecessary? What is wrong with self-insuring a portion of your medical risks and buying a less expensive catastrophic policy to cover the major risks?

Governments have destroyed the private, incentive-driven solutions that have been central to, and inherent in, every advance leading to this point in American history.

Obamacare successfully centralized power and control over the health care industry in Washington, D.C. Beyond that, health care policy has accomplished nothing. Less expensive? Fewer deaths? Better facilities? Better access? Efficiency? Doctors? Nurses? Choices? No!

Those improvements are better left to the market and the individual. Continue to cover the indigent and needy with Medicare and Medicaid and relinquish power and control to the populace, where it belongs.

This story was originally published July 13, 2017 at 2:42 PM with the headline "Health care decisions belong with the people."