Michael Tanner on Health Care Price Controls

Tanner's op-ed is very effective in the New York Post. He shows that like a Roman emperor, Obama and Pelosi's old, old, old, old idea ain't gonna work. (There was certainly something to Thomas Sowell's statement during the campaign that Barack Obama was the youngest candidate with the oldest ideas.)

What's the idea? Controlling prices. Yet, using coercion leads to more coercion...waiting lines. Price controls=rationing.

Tanner provides ample evidence from today's society that this is so in similar places like Great Britain and Canada. I think it's irrefutable.

One datum that should be shouted from the rooftops so that maybe Jeanne Shaheen can hear is this:

Or Obama could try to tackle underlying health-care costs, by repealing government regulations that add as much as much as $169 billion a year to the cost of care, according to Christopher Conover of Duke University.

Gubmit causing problems? Can't be. It must be bad big business. At least that's been the progressive line for the past seventy years.