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“Vaaat…you don’t like health care?”

by | 3:03 pm, January 25, 2010 | Comments Off

I’ve just returned from a trip overseas in Holland and rode in many taxis. As most soon discover, Dutch taxi drivers have immense knowledge of most areas of any interest. The Dutch are also known for their efficiency and as such, have been very kind as to lend their opinion on the matter regarding “Obamacare” without me even having to ask.

What profound wisdom might the Dutch taxi drivers have on Obamacare and it’s detractors? Don’t take it personally, but a few abroad think the opponents of Obamacare are a) a “bit loopy” or b) really mean people who don’t like health care just because. It seems that many Dutch taxi drivers are amazed that we are even having such a debate. “How can you not like health care?” many ask. Every time I would try to explain that it’s not that we don’t like “health care” it’s just that we don’t want or need the kind of health care reform the Democrats are peddling selling offering. Most were not convinced of my compassion for those without health coverage. I had to explain that liberty-minded people would love nothing more than everyone to be able to freely purchase the best possible care in the world. I told them that we too had a dream where health care was affordable for all levels of income. Where competition would spur the best advances in medicine, and the lowest prices for everyone. They remained unconvinced and quite certain that I was one of those crazy “right wingers” from the U.S. who hates people. Despite some very shrewd attempts to convince me of the virtues of a government run system and how the free market ruined health care, I stood my ground as a great patriot and defended the free market ways…still, they were Dutch taxi drivers and as everyone knows…

This brings up an unfortunate perception that many Americans also have. The perception is that the Obamacare opponents don’t have an alternate plan to deal with health care affordability. Many feel that opponents of Obamacare can only offer reasons to not pass a plan and have no alternate solutions.

We as free market and limited government proponents, need to better define and explain our solutions for a more affordable health care system. The current alternate proposals are well…weak. Most ideas from the Republican party have been minor adjustments to the current quasi-corporatist system. When was the last time you heard a Republican say they want to get government out of health care entirely (over the course of time)? Oh right, Ron Paul. But other than Dr. Paul, what other congressperson has come out nationally and actually recognized that the current health care system is not operating in a free market system and major cuts and changes should be implemented to return health care back to a true free market? The silence of that answer is deafening.

It’s now time for free market thinkers and politicians who claim to support the free market to put their words to action and offer a true reform package which removes government from the system and bring the “free” back to the health care market. This way, Dutch taxi drivers and the average U.S. citizen won’t think all Americans who oppose Obamacare are cold, heartless, people who don’t like health care but rather are people who want everyone, poor and rich, to enjoy the low prices and quality care a true free market will deliver.

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