Health care future
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 By Mike MaurerThe single best idea that Ohio has seen in the last 20 years or so has been vouchers, and Michael Sangiacomo of the Cleveland Plain Dealer tells us why:
Attending school illegally? How can that be? Isn’t it illegal to not attend school?
It happens easily. It’s what happens when you allocate resources politically rather than economically. As my patron saint P.J. O’Rourke says in another context that demonstrates the same principle, “If you think health care is expensive now, wait ’til it’s free.”
Ask Gov. Ted Strickland, and he’ll stand in the pulpit and say it’s the Lord’s work to kill vouchers, which give people the power to choose where to go to school. But right now, under the system he and others like him support, people have plenty of school choice, a sort of self-help voucher: Just move to the neighborhood where you like the schools.
But that’s kind of an expensive way to go, and the people that anti-choice folks claim to defend are the ones who are hurt worst by such expensive options. So what are they doing? What people always do, even or especially under the most despotic systems; they help themselves, breaking the law if they have to.
And so children and parents are put into the awful position of having to deceive and outright lie - just so they can attend a halfway decent school.
And what do our kindly bureaucrats do? Put out a bounty for them. And a cheap one at that. One hundred bucks? Please. The tuition they’d charge is almost 8,000 bucks; don’t debt collectors get a 30 percent or better commission? Give the stoolies their due, $2,000 at least
Yes indeed, if you think it’s expensive now, wait til it’s free.
