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Sarah Palin, the Republican Vice Presidential candidate in 2008, made this famous remark in the summer of 2009 about the plan:

Sarah Palin, the Republican Vice Presidential candidate in 2008, made this famous remark in the summer of 2009 about the plan:

:The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell<ref>Thomas Sowell is a prominent African American economist who consistently supports free market solutions to health care and other challenges.</ref> has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

:The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell<ref>Thomas Sowell is a prominent African American economist who consistently supports free market solutions to health care and other problems.</ref> has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

There are problems with health care in America:  costs are too high, many cannot obtain insurance, and cures for some conditions like paralysis are not being developed soon enough.  But is the solution to these problems more use of the free market, or more government control?

There are problems with health care in America:  costs are too high, many cannot obtain insurance, and cures for some conditions like paralysis are not being developed soon enough.  But is the solution to these problems more use of the free market, or more government control?