Bluegrass Institute scholar: Fix, don't destroy, our health-care system

"I think the government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse." --Nobel laureate Milton Friedman

Friedman might have said that in 1975, but it has never been more relevant than it is today as we analyze what's happening with the government takeover of the nation's health-care industry.

Do we need health-care reforms? Yes, target them toward the real needs of Americans without making young, healthy citizens purchase a plan they neither want nor need, says University of Kentucky economics professor and Bluegrass Institute Board of Scholars chairman John Garen, Ph.D., in this editorial published in today's Lexington Herald-Leader.

Also, read Garen's report on the impact of Obamacare's mandates for states, primarily the government-run health exchange and Medicaid expansion. A great way to advance a return to the constitutional principles of federalism in Kentucky is to support the Bluegrass Institute.