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Choosing to opt out

By Health Care Info | July 2, 2010



It’s been a few weeks since the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid floated the idea that states could “opt out” operated by the government health insurance. But it took nearly a year ago that a growing coalition of legislators in 24 states began crafting an opt-out strategy of his own. The differences are clear. Mr. Reid’s opt-out provision is no opt-out at all. It started as a last desperate attempt to revive the Medicare-style public plan again and to appease advocates of single-payer health care. And it shows. The Senate of the opt-out clause is just a detour on the way to socialized medicine. It is unlikely that the state legislatures, the political force for the public plan rejected. Ones that still forced, Mr. Reid’s No. 2 open door to find an unprecedented requirement for health insurance, pay an economy-crippling employer mandate and massive tax increases for Medicaid expansion and purchase a variety of new government programs. But while Mr. Reid’s illusory control was in the headlines, behind the scenes of state legislators urging a real opt-out plan that would preserve the freedom of individuals to make their own decisions health care. Last January, the American Legislative Exchange Council, a bipartisan group of conservative legislators drafted the Freedom of Choice Act in health care. The state constitutional amendment – modeled after the narrowly defeated Proposition 101 on the 2008 Arizona ballot – would not only protect the rights of patients but may also include a mechanism for countries that choose a federal requirement to purchase health insurance. The Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act has two objectives. First, it preserves the right of patients to pay directly for medical care, which is illegal in some single-payer countries like Canada. Single-Payer horror stories tell us that if the government pays for medical care, make bureaucrats decisions based on the bottom line – what about waiting lists and rationing. If patients control health care U.S. dollars, they retain the right to choose, which doctor to see, and what to get medical treatment. Relevant to the Federal Republic of debate, but the freedom in the choice of second determination’s Health Care Act – that individuals can not, because it will be punished by the government established insurance purchase. This is the core of the individual mandate – a provision in the House of Representatives and the Senate bills – that the Cato Institute estimates force 100 million Americans to lose their existing coverage would be. In Massachusetts, a state that an individual mandate has had since 2006, remain to acquire more than 200,000 uninsured residents and forced health insurance premiums for the coverage, costs almost $ 4,000 more than the national average. Fourteen states already have the Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act – Arizona’s measure, it will be submitted to the voters face on the 2010 ballot – and another 10 states have already announced their intention to do so. On its face, the constitutional amendment would be put down every state law on the direct payment for medical care or one that would require an individual mandate ban. These are real threats at the state level – 13 states introduced single-payer change during the 2009 Legislature, and an individual mandate was issued to thunderous applause bipartisan in Massachusetts. Now states are facing a looming health care overhaul of the Congress, that would among other unsavory elements that require an individual purchase by the government insurance. And in the case of the round, the Federal States in a position to use the Freedom of Choice Act in health care as a legitimate possibility of a single mandate of the federal opt. It has fought a legal battle before and won before. Clint Bolick, counsel for the Arizona effort, said that our federal system empowers states to protect the freedom of their people and the federal government has the power to provide protection against limited. Recent decisions of the Supreme Court not only confirmed this conclusion is permissible, but also states opt from certain provisions of federal law. State legislators are not waiting around for Mr. Reid to them with false choices they saddle with higher taxes, bloated, government programs and a deterioration of patient care to present. You know, the time for government protection of the Constitution is now.

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