{"id":2631,"date":"2009-12-11T14:15:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T19:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2009-12-11T14:15:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T19:15:54","slug":"an-alternative-to-being-the-party-of-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2631\/an-alternative-to-being-the-party-of-no\/","title":{"rendered":"An Alternative to Being the Party of &#8220;No&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cato Institute has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pub_display.php?pub_id=11042\" target=\"_blank\">a terrific critique on the Democrats\u2019 comprehensive health care \u201creform\u201d bill<\/a>.\u00a0 Throughout the article runs a description of the expansive interpretation given to the U.S. Constitution\u2019s Interstate Commerce Clause by the Supreme Court, and further stretched by Congress.\u00a0\u00a0 The best part though is a counter-proposal for increasing competition in the health insurance market while lowering costs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Congress were interested in using the commerce clause for its intended purpose, we would be debating the Health Care Choice Act, which would permit the interstate purchase of individual health policies. The Democrats, however, bottled up that bill in committee.<\/p>\n<p>They would rather exploit the cartelization of health insurance in selected states to argue for a government-run insurance company. Never mind that a major reason for those cartels is the prohibition against purchasing insurance across state lines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencongress.org\/bill\/111-h3217\/text\" target=\"_blank\">Health Care Choice Act<\/a> is an elegant piece of legislation designed to allow health insurance carriers to sell \u2013 and consumers to purchase \u2013 plans across state lines.\u00a0 Of course, there are federalism concerns about allowing different states to regulate according to their own policy preferences. \u00a0Then again, the Health Care Choice Act does give the GOP something to <em>support<\/em> in the health reform debate.\u00a0 Additional commentary on the proposal is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/HealthCare\/wm1164.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cato Institute has a terrific critique on the Democrats\u2019 comprehensive health care \u201creform\u201d bill.\u00a0 Throughout the article runs a description of the expansive interpretation given to the U.S. Constitution\u2019s Interstate Commerce Clause by the Supreme Court, and further stretched by Congress.\u00a0\u00a0 The best part though is a counter-proposal for increasing competition in the health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[627,628,465],"class_list":["post-2631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cato-institute","tag-health-care-choice-act","tag-health-care-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}