A Dangerous Plan for Health Care

By Roger Hickey
October 14th, 2008 - 11:12am ET

The global financial crash of the past few weeks has hammered home what should be common sense: A free market needs reasonable rules that safeguard the public interest. When you unshackle corporations and put the cops who would police them in handcuffs, ultimately everyone loses in the ensuing chaos.

As our Tuesday, October 14 op-ed ad in The New York Times points out, despite their spectacular “free market” economic failure, conservatives are still trying to use that recipe for disaster to reform an already failing health-care system.