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Here’s a good place to start your search for the “impossible” solution of letting the free market work in health care (see how far left you’ve already drifted defending Romney’s program — you can’t even concieve that a free market might work):

http://www.cato.org/healthcare/

If you can’t explain your “free market” solution to health care coverage in a few paragraphs, then you are supporting a complex unworkable pie in the sky solution akin to Hillary’s 100-page 1994 debacle.

But just for curiosity, I went to your cato institution web page, and quickly discovered it looooong on identifying the problems, and short on actual solutions.

Here are THE solutions proposed by one of the cato hotshots on how to solve the dilemma whereby the govt pays for millions of people who refuse to buy health insurance, and instead rely on MediCaid, MediCare, and bankruptcy.

For example, here are the “solutions” as proposed by Cato supported Tom Miller.

CATO
“Tom Miller has provided a detailed blueprint for a reformed health care system that would try to promote efficiency and economy by re-designing incentives,
especially by assigning more responsibility for health spending decisions to individual consumers and less to third-party payers. The plan would put more
emphasis on achieving access to health services than on expanding insurance coverage. It includes the following elements:

>tax credits available to everyone that could be used to purchase highdeductible insurance coverage.

>greater emphasis on expanding the safety net system as an alternative to covering all of the uninsured.

>improved funding and accessibility to high-risk pools.

>greater flexibility in health insurance regulation, provided by promoting inter-state regulatory competition to attract insurers.

>changes in the incentives that now encourage choice of employer-based coverage over individual coverage.

>tax incentives to encourage voluntary contributions to agencies serving the uninsured.

Notice how all these solutions take more money out of the pockets of taxpayers.

Like I said, can you just explain your solution in a few paragraphs.

Or if you just want to declare that America should never pay anything for anyone who doesn’t have private health insurance.

That is a reasonable stance. Not one politician in America would go along with that.

Oh, by the way, Romney DID propose health care tax free savings plans — which Cato thinks will solve the health care problems.

Which brings me to the main point.

Romney, and others involved in debating the health care problem, is mainly trying to cover the millions who are currently NOT covered and instead rely on taxpayers to pay their bills.

Romney is not, as Cato seems to be doing, trying to lower costs or improve drug access, etc.

Romney recognizes that American will not allow sick people, no matter how poor, to go untreated.

Politicians will never just let the poor people die because they can’t afford a hospital room.

Again, I read through the Cato stuff and STILL can’t tell exactly what they propose to get these people covered.

Cato is one of those organizations who is certain what they DON’T want to do, but don’t have a specific proposal of things they DO want to do.