Common Sense, The Cure for Health Care Reform

Ann Coulter comes out and says what we are all thinking or at least what we should be thinking, in her editorial TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND CALL ME WHEN YOUR CANCER IS STAGE 4. She is trying to send the message that health care should be left to the free market and people need to realize that health care must be paid for by those who use it. Bad drivers pay higher premiums for their auto insurance so why should healthy people, who do not abuse their health insurance by going to the ER, to avoid the co-pay, for a stomach ache, pay for the insurance and health care of the people who do abuse it? It is a message everyone needs to hear. The opinions she expresses should be heard by every U.S. citizen who does not want to live in a socialist state.

While Ms. Coulter presents no evidence she is stating what should be universal truths. Are there really people out there who believe that a government bureaucracy is the most efficient means of getting anything done? Remember the new Passport requirements of not so many years ago? And should Congress pass and the President sign into law a bill that you know is going to have so much pork in it that the first thing the health reform bill will have to pay for is a prescription for Lipitor for everyone in the country?

Ms. Coulter is a frequent guest on many TV shows, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Early Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Hannity, The O'Reilly Factor, The Glen Beck Show, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, and has been profiled in numerous publications, including TV Guide, the Guardian (UK), the New York Observer, National Journal, Harper's Bazaar, and Elle magazine. She was the April 25, 2005 cover story of Time magazine. In 2001, she was named one of the top 100 Public Intellectuals by federal judge Richard Posner. A Connecticut native, she graduated with honors from Cornell University School of Arts & Sciences, and received her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of The Michigan Law Review. She clerked for the Honorable Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and was an attorney in the Department of Justice Honors Program for outstanding law school graduates. After practicing law in private practice in New York City, Ms. Coulter worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan. From there, she became a litigator with the Center For Individual Rights in Washington, DC, a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights, and the free exercise of religion. As to her credibility… depends on which side of the aisle you’re on!