Saturday, July 18, 2009 | 2:01 a.m.
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In his column in the Las Vegas Sun last Sunday (“Health care debate goes to who we are”), Editor Brian Greenspun posits that government can deliver good health care. To back that assertion, he describes how the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston provides world-class care and is run by government as part of the University of Texas System.
It’s a fallacious argument at best — it’s like saying that because a local government can be run well, so can the feds. Hah! So the federal government can do the health care job? As it does with Medicare/Medicaid? Or with Social Security? Or with the U.S. Postal Service?
And who would pay for a new federal boondoggle? The numbers simply do not add up, not unless we all get clobbered with new taxes that further exacerbate our current horrendous financial tailspin.
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