Update on the Anti-Universal Coverage Club

Posted by Michael F. Cannon

Joining the Anti-Universal Coverage Club this week is a list of organizations that have formed a new group called The Health Care Freedom Coalition.  Here are a few lines from their agenda:

Most Democratic presidential candidates, one Republican presidential candidate, many business trade associations, and unions have endorsed “universal health insurance” as the solution to our nation’s health care problems.

With 46 million Americans who don’t have health insurance, these politicians and special interest groups have concluded that covering everyone will magically make health care affordable.

“Universal health insurance” is a myth. The only way to make health care “affordable” under a “universal health insurance” scheme is through price controls and limiting access. Any proposal claiming to provide “universal coverage” is nothing more than a system that must rely on private and/or public entities to administer government-run health care. 

Emphasis added.  The Health Care Freedom Coalition includes:

Not joining the Anti-Universal Coverage Club this week are the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, which approved legislation to expand government health insurance to people who don’t need government assistance, and the Galen Institute’s Grace-Marie Turner, who reiterated in her weekly newsletter:

The question isn’t whether children should or should not have health insurance. The question is how do we achieve that goal.

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