Day in and day out, I hear the administration and their lackeys give interviews and write columns saying that fixing the economy is impossible without health care reform. That’s the type of talk the gets me mad. Here is an article by Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services. I understand the very loose logic they are using here, that increasing health care costs are an added burden on the economy, but to fix the economy, people need jobs, credit needs to start flowing, and small businesses need a boost. We did not get in a recession because of a health care crisis, but because of a housing crisis. Obama and company have turned their art of PR into something much more dangerous: flat out lying to the American people.

To fix the economy, we need less regulation by government on small business, less quasi-government-run firms like Fannie Mae, more oversight for government-run firms, fairer taxes, and policies that make America more competitive globally. Instead we get platitudes. Instead we get lies like “without health care reform the economy will not make it.” Apparently they had not lived a single day in America prior to the recession, where our lack of health care reform never stopped our collective prosperity. I agree that health care costs are a big problem, but that is because the government has taken it upon themselves to tax every American and create a bloated government health care subsidy system that will be unfeasible in the future. On the flip side, the free market has done what it does best, improve quality and settle on an equilibrium price that covers most people (only about 46 million uninsured, out of a population of 300 million). This means that the solution to excessive, bloated, inefficient government programs should be one that backs away from a public system solution. Instead, the Leftist-in-Chief is using this economic crisis, exacerbated by a stimulus package that simply deepened US debt without providing the jobs bonanza that they promised, to scare people into passing another government-run health care system. The definition of insanity has been on display since 1/20. A recession caused by excessive borrowing, they try to solve by borrowing even more on the federal level. An unworkable government-run health care system, they try to solve by creating yet another government program.

The solution to health care is to unleash the benefits of a free market approach while using government in a very limited fashion to make sure everyone plays fair and that no one is left behind. Mandates, more spending, and more taxing are exactly the wrong way to do things. Dishonestly lumping together the recession with health care reform is the only way the Democrats can scare Americans into accepting this type of plan.

-AG