Some simple common sense from UP co-founder Steve Forbes:

Washington’s political class keeps insisting that our healthcare problems can be solved with more regulations, more dictates and more bureaucratic tinkering. The results of this command-and-control mindset speak for themselves: exploding premiums, shrinking choices and a healthcare system that’s increasingly unresponsive, unaccountable and unaffordable.

We don’t need more government engineering; we need more freedom. When individuals, not bureaucrats, control healthcare dollars, innovation flourishes, costs come down and patients receive better care. This is the same formula that has made the U.S. the global leader in technology, finance and consumer products. There’s no reason healthcare should be any different.

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