Entitlements 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, Freedom 0

It is telling that a White House staffer tweeted, in response to insurance companies' caving to White House demands to cover children's preexisting conditions despite a potential loophole in ObamaCare that might let them get out of it...

..."Kids 1, insurance 0."

So the Democrats think of health care only in terms of winners and losers. In order for patients to win, insurance companies must lose. Gains by one group must always be made at the expense of another group.

But this is not the way it has to be. In a free market, decisions about health care would be made voluntarily -- by mutual trade, to mutual benefit. A child would not get health insurance at the expense of the insurer -- his parents would decide that they valued their child's being insured more than they valued the money it cost them, whereas the insurance company would value the money more than it values the service it is providing to the child's parents. Both parties would be trading something they valued less and getting something they valued more. In that case, the score is a win for both sides. Isn't that the kind of world we want -- not the kind where we cannibalize each other?