"America doesn't need a 'health care czar"


By Paul Hsieh, MD, co-founder of Freedom and Individual Rights in
Medicine (FIRM )

http:///www.WeStandFirm.org


INTRODUCTION:

KEY DATA: Free market health reforms could reduce health insurance
costs by over 50%.

TAKE HOME: President Barack Obama's plans for a "health czar" would
represent an unprecedented and dangerous intrusion of government into
the practice of American medicine.

Former senator Tom Daschle's withdrawal as President Barack Obama's
nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services has left the White
House administration scrambling to find a new "health czar" to
implement their goal of government-run "universal health care."

But while the primary focus had been on Daschle's tax problems,
Americans should also ask a more fundamental question: Why do we need
a health czar in the first place?...

Rest of the article here:

http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/America-doesnt-need-a-health-care-
czar-40076027.html

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