Return health care to the free market in US

The Constitution of the United States of America may not give our government the power to provide health care or demand the citizens to have health care.

Patients and doctors need their freedom back to make choices in a free medical market with competition between doctors, hospitals and insurance companies. With this freedom restored, Americans will then ultimately determine the right cost.

Americans built the best medical care in the world without government intervention. Why not wean ourselves off of the Affordable Care Act and turn America back to free enterprise and competition in the medical world? Whatever part our government plays in healthcare, it should strive to preserve the benefits of freedom to choose and the advantages of free enterprise and competition.

President John F. Kennedy appealed to the “general Welfare” clause of the Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 as his right as president to ask for health care legislation.

This clause of our Constitution contains the words “and provide for the… general Welfare of the United States.” The “general Welfare” clause is most likely addressing the State of the Union, not the state of every individual in the union.

The medical community and their patients know the price today is too high. Too many of the healthcare dollars are going to the insurance companies. Our Congress has no idea how to determine the real cost of good medicine for each individual. Their legislation has increased the cost of health care. Then Congress members do not want to raise taxes to pay for what they promise American citizens; as a result, they produce a form of medical rationing and micro-management of medicine for which they are not equipped.

This story was originally published June 30, 2017 at 2:35 PM with the headline "Return health care to the free market in US."