A counterpoint to President’s health care reform

Here's the actual Hennessey reply:

"President Obama is correct that the underlying problem with health care is rising costs. Because of this problem, your paycheck grows more slowly, millions of Americans cannot afford to buy health insurance, and the escalating costs of Medicare and Medicaid will force enormous tax increases onto you and your children. The President wants to slow the growth of health care spending, and so do I.
"Congress has gone in the opposite direction. Rather than changing incentives to reduce the cost of health insurance, they are trying to shift those costs onto someone else: you. The facts are not in dispute. The bill being developed in the House of Representatives would mean:
--No reduction in the growth of average private health insurance premiums;
--More than $1 trillion of new government spending over the next decade;
--$239 billion more debt in the short run, with ever-increasing additions to the deficit forever; and
--More than $500 billion of tax increases, including higher income tax rates on successful small businesses

" Health insurers today are partially insulated from competitive forces...
"You can’t watch a televised sports event without being overwhelmed by the competition among auto insurers...
"When insurers have to compete for your business, it will put you and your doctor in control, rather than your insurer or your employer. The bills moving through Congress assume that we all have the same health care needs, and they create one-size-fits-all solutions...
"More control means putting the resources in your hands while giving you both the information you need to make good decisions,..
"The right kind of health care reform is not a free lunch. It carries obligations as well...
"Over the next month you will hear the claim that opponents of the pending Congressional health care bills are defenders of the status quo...
"This is misleading, and there is a better way...

Read his very sound ideas:
http://keithhennessey.com/2009/07/30/health-care-counterpoint/

Here's the Hot Air link to the story about Hennesey's reply to O-campaign email:
"Hennessey understands that the key to reform is expanding the role of competition in health insurance. ObamaCare does the opposite; it forces all insurance plans to offer essentially the same profile in order to qualify in the “exchanges” to come. That magnifies one of the anti-competitive bottlenecks already creating problems — the human resources offices at businesses who offer health care. When insurers have to compete to get individual business, they will innovate and create a multitude of choices for the consumer.

"Read all of Keith’s excellent reply. It makes so much sense that it’s almost guaranteed that Congress won’t listen — unless we all keep calling to make them listen.

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/01/hennessey-hits-reply-all-to-obama-e-mail-on-health-care/