Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Hsieh Forbes Column: The New Congress Should Propose Free-Market Health Care Reforms

My latest Forbes piece is now up, "The New Congress Should Propose Free-Market Health Care Reforms".

Here is the opening:
As we prepare to ring in 2015, we will see a new Congress as well as a New Year. When the Republicans take over both houses of Congress, they’ll have an unprecedented opportunity to reshape the health care debate in a positive direction.

Ever since capturing the House in 2011, Republicans have voted more than 50 times to “repeal, dismantle, or defund” ObamaCare — to no avail. Opposing ObamaCare is not enough. Instead, The GOP should couple those efforts with their own positive free-market alternative to ObamaCare.

The good news is that there is no shortage of good alternatives to ObamaCare that Congress could rally behind...
In particular, I'm encouraged by the new media attention being given to alternative health care financing and delivery models such as "direct pay" primary care and "health care sharing ministries".

For more on positive free-market alternatives to ObamaCare and how Congress can promote them, see the full text of "The New Congress Should Propose Free-Market Health Care Reforms".