The best health care proposal I have read to date

Freedom Works by John McCain

John McCain just became a much stronger candidate in my eyes. The more candidates talk about freedom, the more likely they get my vote.

There are many different directions that helping those with health care needs can come from and have sustainable, responsible financing to support them. Breaking up state-backed monopolies on health insurance sounds like a brilliant idea. A tax credit would be an impressive opportunity to purchase affordable health insurance. Churches, non-profits, employers, and private insurance programs are all opportunities that a liberal democratic non-profit and for-profit market offers and in a way that does not undercut the opportunities that Americans and those with robust health care markets are uniquely able to access.

Cuba may have a commitment to universal care, but they have none of the technology, drugs, specialization, research and development and growth within their health care fields, and certainly none of the freedom and choices that are available in their freer and more democratic neighboring states. And, worse, it all comes at the expense of dissidents, homosexuals, and other democratic-minded free-thinkers to challenge their government or to act in ways that their totalitarian state does not approve of and for which governance they are given no real alternative. Most Europeans democracies with socialist health care systems do so with a constant fight over limited resources, slow-moving and under-performing systems that leave many peoples' needs unmet and no real alternative to getting them met, far less developed markets for technology, drugs, research and development and the like, and unsustainable bureaucracies that are constantly facing the need for cuts or alternative ways to improve revenue. They are not the worst way to receive health care in the world. But they are not the best, either.

I'll deal with not having the most premium health care insurance available - given a teacher's income - to have all of the opportunities available to me that a more robust market makes more affordable for more people.