Health-care reform: How has the individual mandate worked in Massachusetts?
Posted: Jul 13, 2012 8:27 PM CDTUpdated: Jul 15, 2012 2:00 PM CDT
"It's just that in this country, ‘try to do the right thing' has just gotten too... expensive. It's not economically feasible anymore," Kastner says. "Not only is it hugely expensive, but you have difficult choices with large economic consequences, and there isn't always a ‘Health Care for Dummies' book right in front of you."
The larger question, says Joshua Archambault, health-care policy director for the Pioneer Institute, a think tank in Boston, is not about health care at all, but about the proper role of government in people's lives.
"It's a symptom of a wider problem -- that is, of the government's role, intervention in our lives," he says. "And [opponents] see this as the first of possibly many things the government is making us do that we don't want to do."
"It's just that in this country, ‘try to do the right thing' has just gotten too... expensive. It's not economically feasible anymore," Kastner says. "Not only is it hugely expensive, but you have difficult choices with large economic consequences, and there isn't always a ‘Health Care for Dummies' book right in front of you."
The larger question, says Joshua Archambault, health-care policy director for the Pioneer Institute, a think tank in Boston, is not about health care at all, but about the proper role of government in people's lives.
"It's a symptom of a wider problem -- that is, of the government's role, intervention in our lives," he says. "And [opponents] see this as the first of possibly many things the government is making us do that we don't want to do."
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