Liberate us from laws that stifle competition

The determination of the Democratic leadership to pass health care reform - which as it stands still has a public option (albeit rephrased as a federal health care exchange) - represents a sense of moral carte blanche that is almost always dangerous.

The current version of health care coverage would levy new taxes to cover people who don't have insurance - about 30 million people. The creation of a new entitlement further exacerbates the problem of our ever-mounting debt, makes significant portions of our population beholden to the Democratic Party and blithely ignores the underlying cost drivers in health insurance: cost of malpractice insurance for doctors massive shortage of doctors, and the fact that an individual cannot cross state lines to buy insurance.

In short, there is too little competition to provide access to a resource of which there is already a shortage. It speaks to the blind conviction of the left that the House seeks to pass legislation into law (without a vote) using a parliamentary mechanism that should have been ruled unconstitutional long ago.

Further illuminating is that the left, in exercising financial eminent domain to redistribute my income to citizens and non-citizens alike (the government cannot deny coverage to illegal immigrants even if it says it can), the left does not even have the common courtesy to make the encroachment as minimal as possible.

What is needed is for the left to liberate us from laws that stifle competition and allow a litigious few to drive costs up for the many.

David Sheets

Toddville