Newsday.com
January 17, 2002
by Marie Cocco
“The choice made in 1994 was to let it be, to reject a national solution and let every American find his own. Each employer and each individual would choose in a marketplace that would somehow bring perfect rationality to a perfectly irrational health-care system.
“For that to be true, you would have to believe that economics, and not emotion, is what drives people when they’re having a baby or some tightness in the chest. You would have to assume that people who lose their jobs, and with it their insurance, have a choice. Or that people who go without insurance because they can’t afford the premiums are making an informed decision, not a desperate one.
“Now we know all the old health-insurance problems, and some new ones, are still problems. The question is who, if anyone, will step forward to suggest a real solution.”