the arizona strategy
Health care reform is needed. However, reforms that increase the role of government and an already massive federal budget deficit – as many proposals would – are bad medicine. The Cato Institute is undertaking nationwide outreach on how free-market reforms, increased consumer choice, and energized competition – not more government control – improve health care's quality and affordability. This includes outreach through national newspapers and radio stations, and a new web site of key resources.
Your New Doctor?
What really matters is who decides. Under reform proposals before Congress, government would take over more and more of your health care decisions. Whatever it’s called—socialized medicine . . . government-run health care . . . "a public plan". . . individual & employer mandates— it's bad medicine.
In a recent national survey* 4 out of 5 Americans were concerned that government run health care would:
• REDUCE HEALTH CARE QUALITY
• INCREASE COSTS
• LIMIT CHOICES OF DOCTORS
• INCREASE THE FEDERAL DEFICIT
There is a better, uniquely American solution: freedom. Freedom to choose your doctor and health plan. Freedom to spend your health care dollars as you choose. Freedom to make your own medical decisions. Freedom to keep a health plan you are satisfied with.
Information provided by CATO Institute
*Washington Post-ABC News Poll, June 18-21, 2009
