Hawaii Ending Universal Child Health Care

Saturday,October 18, 2008    Posted by: Chris Stager    1 Comment

Hawaii, the only state with universal child health care in the country, is dropping its program after only SEVEN MONTHS.  Why?  Ah come on, how hard is this?  Gov. Lind Lingle’s administration cites budget shortfalls and other available health care options.  A DHS physician cites the tragedy of the commons (Econ 101) as another reason: “People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free.”

Note, I have not posted for several months since this “bail out” seemed so much more important than health care issues.  But it seems the government is now fully committed to further intervention and further economically disasterous plots so I may start posting again because, heck, what else can I do.  As I have seen in other countries, we will have hard decisions in the future when funds run out due to our new disasterous plans.    Will we become more controlled or will people have enough and demand freedom back?

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