In Sickness and in Wealth

Campus Report ^ | July 20, 2009 | Mytheos Holt

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In Sickness and In Wealth

by: Mytheos Holt, July 20, 2009

Last Tuesday, at the weekly bloggers’ briefing hosted by the Heritage Foundation, Reps. John Shadegg (R-AZ) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) unveiled their vision of substantive health care reform as a competing model to use against the currently stalled Democratic version. In the process, Reps. Shadegg and Blackburn exposed some little-known facts about previous liberal experiments with health care, and detailed a straightforward, common-sensical set of answers for the oft-cited rising prices.

In their respective talks, Reps. Shadegg and Blackburn focused on different but complimentary elements of the Republican argument for their alternative plan, with Rep. Shadegg detailing the constructive and theoretical arguments for the plan and Rep. Blackburn detailing the historical arguments against the Democratic plan. During his speech, Rep. Shadegg continually emphasized the role played by over-consumption in health care costs. “If someone else is paying for it, there is overconsumption,” Rep. Shadegg said, comparing the current situation with employer-provided health care to the behavior of children in candy stores. “If I told the clerk to just go ahead and put whatever they want on my tab, [my kids] would buy everything they wanted,” Rep. Shadegg said. “The reason costs are going through the roof is because people are overconsuming ‘cause they think someone else is paying for it.”

Shadegg also detailed the role of unions in the current problems with health care....

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"The reason costs are going through the roof is because people are overconsuming ‘cause they think someone else is paying for it."

They are. That's the plan.