The Boston Globe‘s Jeff Jacoby reports some useful facts to counteract some of the stupid hyperbole spewed in the today’s health-care debate. Here’s his closing:
The critics do have one thing right: More competition would bring down health care premiums. But the way to increase competition is not by adding a government-run health plan to the 1,300 private firms already providing health insurance. We do have a highly competitive national market for auto and life insurance, after all, and with no public option. There’s no reason we can’t have the same for health insurance.
