The current health care debate that is being engaged in across the country is so important because it impacts every person and every business in important ways.  While I am generally conservative in my political leanings (with libertarian smatterings – and even an occasional liberal thought), I won’t be using this blog to further any political purposes, other than to support free enterprise.

Nevertheless, I thought I would share one of the most intelligently written and carefully thought-out pieces that I have read on the state of health care in the United States.  Everybody seems to agree that the system is broken, but there are disagreements about “what” is actually broken, and how to fix it.  The article, How American Health Care Killed My Father,  written by David Goldhill and published in the September issue of The Atlantic, makes a powerful statement about the real problems in our nations health care system, and proposes a unique solution that nobody in Washington D.C. is discussing.

No matter what position you find yourself taking in the current political debate, Goldhill will assuredly challenge your assumptions and make you re-think your position.  I know it had that impact on me.

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