The politician’s stump speech on how to control private healthcare costs began with the tired bromide that Americans spend 30% more per individual for private healthcare than the rest of the world and had worse outcomes. Fixing the problem required the use of “market forces”.
ROPER: Healthcare Is a Government Facilitated Grift
During the healthcare segment of the pre-session legislative briefing on the state of Vermont’s economy, Senator Alison Clarkson (D-Windsor) piped up, “At the risk of asking the dumbest question of the day, and having been around when our healthcare costs were $2 billion a year and not $10 [billion], why in the hell do we … Read more