By Isabel Hogue. Is there a better way to reform health care insurance? Yes, there is. And the answer lies in the free market. Free markets work. They work because our choices as consumers between competing producers gives us both the right incentives and the right information to produce and procure the right amount of exactly what we want.
By Isabel Hogue. What is the harm in giving up information and choice in exchange for the promise that someone else will pay the bills? What is the harm in a system that is built on maximizing third-party reimbursements such as we now have and such as a government-run healthcare system is?
BY ISABEL HOGUE. This is the first of a four-part series on the history of health care insurance and her view on the current health care debate in this country. The next three parts of the series will run Oct. 9, 16 and 23.
