Having rolled out his basic strategy for reform earlier this week, “ America’s Mayor” now has an op-ed piece in the Boston Globe discussing American health care and what ails it. His diagnosis isn’t tentative:
The healthcare system is being dragged down by decades of government-imposed mandates, wasteful bureaucracy, and massive distortions in the
US tax code that punish self-employed and low-income workers.
He then prescribes the obvious cure for a system plagued by too much government regulation and perverse tax incentives:
I believe we can reduce costs and improve the quality of care by increasing competition. We can do it through tax cuts, not tax hikes. We can do it by empowering patients and their doctors, not government bureaucrats.
Obviously, “Hizzoner” has to get elected in order to act on this. But at least he gets it, which is more than I can say about any of the other serious contenders.
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