Is this Roy Blunt's idea of health care reform? From a radio interview done yesterday:
HOST MIKE FERGUSON: What is the proper role of government, and what are the potential impacts of the direction that we're going right now?
BLUNT: Well, you could certainly argue that government should have never have gotten in the health care business, and that might have been the best argument of all, to figure out how people could have had more access to a competitive marketplace.
Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.
It "might have been the best" if Medicare and Medicaid and SCHIP were never created. If he thinks the government should have never gotten in the health care business, does that apply to veterans care as well?
By the way, there are more than 900,000 people on Medicare and more than a million people on Medicaid in Missouri. One wonders how they'll react to the news that someone who wants to represent them in the Senate would rather their health care didn't exist.