Doctors and politicians think alike

Doctors and politicians think alike - most of each don't understand the market. As you can read here in this article, the Massachusetts health care plan for "all" is in need of more money. The politicians who rammed this through a few years ago, including former governor Mitt Romney, don't understand that you can't repeal the fundamental laws of economics. The inevitable always occurs when you introduce socialism into a system: long lines, shortages, higher costs, less quality, and ultimately, rationing.

Not amazingly, in Sunday's Houston Chronicle (April 27), two doctors wrote a short op-ed calling for more socialism, in this case, a "single-payer" system. The "single-payer" is the government. They state that "free market plans will not work." Well, we used to have a free market in health care and it worked just fine. Then two massive interventions, one in 1965 and another in 1973, destroyed the market and created the terrible situation we have today.

Come on docs, stick to what you know: medicine. Stop dabbling in a field you just proved you know nothing about - economics. The only solution is a complete free-market health care system. Prices will drop dramatically, quality will rise, and the debate will be removed from the American news every night. You don't hear the news debating the continued rise in computer, dvd, shirt, or hamburger costs, do you? Oh yeah, that's right, we have a market in those.