"Right now consumers are locked into the health insurance and health care plans that their employers choose, thanks to previous government meddling with the health care system and the tax code. Consequently, most consumers simply don't have a clue what their health insurance costs. They have no way to reduce those costs, and no incentive to do so, even if they could."
If people really understood that the current medical care mess is actually caused by of government intervention, perhaps they wouldn't be so quick to offer their lives and futures to the fools who are in charge. No place is that more evident than (of course) in today's NY Times. David Leonhardt takes us painfully through a series of gymnastics for the sole purpose of making sure that the government is in charge of the system, rather than really solving the problems. Read it and realize just how stupid we have become....
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