"Health Care Reform? Maybe Next Year" by Michael F. Cannon (Cato Institute: Commentary)

"Health Care Reform? Maybe Next Year" by Michael F. Cannon (Cato Institute: Commentary):

Did comprehensive health care reform just get a big boost? The health care industry says it's willing to trim $2 trillion off the nation's health care bill over the next 10 years.

Could 2009 be the year we finally reform health care? Don't count on it.

It's not that we don't need health care reform. Right now, Congress basically conditions health coverage on your ability to get and keep a job. That's not health insurance. That's survival of the fittest.

But there have always been two things standing in the way of Democrats' plans for universal health insurance coverage: math and politics."