[goldstategop]

Not as heretical as it sounds. I think its coming since health care costs burden our private sector in ways that inhibit American competitiveness abroad. Our competitors in Europe and Asia don't have to worry about health insurance costs. The market which we conservatives revere, isn't always perfect. There is such thing as information asymmetry. We can continue to let escalating health care costs drag our economy down or we can have single payer health care. What's clear is we can no longer put off talking about what is surely inevitable.

[ModelBreaker]

Singapore is a dictatorship. We are not. You can’t have nationalized health care when the voters elect the people who grant benefits. It’s no different than public employee unions. The union bosses elect the people who negotiate with them.

[Aglooka]

What's clear is we can no longer put off talking about what is surely inevitable.

IBTZ

This is the logic used every time the government wants more, centralized, power.

[caldera599]

Health care woes caused by government interference.

Proposes even more government inference to fix it.

Wow, great logic. /s

[qam1]

However, HK has a dirty little secret. It has a very good national health care system. HK citizens have some of the highest life expectancies in the world but their government health care system only costs about three percent of their GDP to operate (a sharp contrast to the 20 percent of GDP that USA health care costs are expected to be in the next decade).

Hong Kong doesn't have a government run single payer system.

Sure the government runs some hospitals, but they charge you or your insurance company.

The author(you?) should research more into Hong Kong.

http://guides.wsj.com/hong-kong/guide-to-hong-kong/health-care/

[Brad from Tennessee]

If ObamaCare is struck down or repealed there is a series of reforms that can be put in place before any fundamental changes are contemplated. These would include: privatization of Medicare, Medicaid and the VA system; opening a nationwide market for health care insurers and clients; medical malpractice tort reform; allowing nurse practitioners and other highly-trained paramedics to assume many roles traditionally limited to physicians.

[freekitty]

The only problem is Obamacare has no real healthcare in it and has some other pretty bad stuff in it. It should be scrapped period.

[trebb]

Conservatives are supposed to be the defenders of business. Yet our current health care system works as an albatross around the neck of American business.

Not as cogent as you think it is. The guy tap-dances around what caused the problem in the first place: GOVERMENT INTRUSION. Health care insurance started skyrocketing after the government got involved. The constant addition of coverage that MUST be included, disallowing inter-State "commerce" with insurance companies, etc.

Don't get sucked into socialist BS.

[TigersEye]

The Conservative Case For Communism. You betcha!

[xzins]

Ignorant article.

I agree that businesses paying health insurance makes no sense. There is zero reason your place of employment should be responsible for your health insurance.

What is a conservative solution?

Businesses should drop covering health, pay the lion’s share of that cost per employee to each employee, and let THEM buy THEIR OWN health insurance.

Individual versus government. NOW THAT is a conservative solution. Individuals caring for themselves or paying the price if they don’t. Period.

And the competition will drive down the cost of health care for everyone.

[JediJones]

There’s a reason the U.S. became the most powerful economy and country in the world.

Because we don’t do things the way every other country does them.

Saying we should follow other country’s examples is the best argument of them all as to why we should keep doing things our own way.