Virginia Libertarian

I am in the IT industry and ran across this article concerning Obama’s plans for Healthcare IT. While I don’t have a problem with the goals that Mr. Obama is setting, I do have a problem that government thinks that it needs to get involved in the process. As we all know from past experience, government run anything is always less efficient than a privately run version. What we’re going to end up with is a one-size fits all implementation of health “care”, similar to what we now have in our government run schools. It is simply too expensive for a large beauracracy like the federal government to do anything except meet the lowest common denominator, they cannot possibly have rules for all contingencies, and cannot allow lee-way in making exceptions as that will lead to corruption of the system (not that corruption won’t happen anyway). I’m not writing this to bust on one party or the other, as George W had this as a goal for us as well, Obama is just being more aggresive with the timeline. What I would like to see is someone that would take us back to the expressly allowed powers granted to the Federal government, not someone that wants to expand the government to run everything.