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DEAR EDITOR:

Will Ohio’s U. S. Senate candidates J.D. Vance or Tim Ryan suggest banning America’s distinctive group health insurance?

Those of us who’ve truly studied group health’s operations acknowledge it as one of the vital radical and destructive concepts of the previous 80 years. Our refusal to grasp simply how subversive and ruinous group health is when it was revived in 1943 to dam nationwide health care has made it a gateway to a permissive atmosphere for outright medical lunacies and slippery slopes.

The case to abolish group health insurance would be the opening salvo within the epic battle to rectify distribution of American medication. The opinion chief in that battle will certainly be short-listed for a future Presidential Medal of Freedom, and given America’s extraordinarily irregular patterns of health care consumption, even a Nobel Memorial Prize in economics.

Both Vance and Ryan have 4 months to develop into greatness. One candidate’s present health care place quantities to the standard puddle of moist mush. Plus, funding banker Vance is aware of American enterprise has already labored round group health’s onerous prices. Specifically, tactical bankruptcies, outsourcing, off-shoring, cost-shifting and wage-cutting. Ever surprise why that $28-an-hour manufacturing unit job is now $18 an hour?

Indeed, our legislators are longtime dupes for group health. Republicans snored as group health quietly undermined household because the primal mannequin of financial distribution. A single employee’s uninsured mom and father, or uninsured brother and sister, for instance, won’t ever be enrolled in his group health coverage beneath so-called household plans. Democrats yawned as group health, a job-killing excise tax on labor, gutted America of producing jobs.

Evil concepts with up-front attractiveness, reminiscent of group health insurance, are authorized and luxuriate in large in style assist. See, for instance, the twentieth century’s now defunct governing philosophies. It’s vital to ask what the hidden prices of a pretty however evil thought are.

We can’t vote our approach out of evil. We can’t reform our approach out of evil. We can’t spend our approach out of evil. We can’t focus-group our approach out of evil. We can’t debate our approach out of evil on Sunday morning tv. We can solely hope the profitable candidate, Vance or Ryan, will lay the inspiration for Congress to abolish group health insurance.

What of the 170 million Americans now herded in group health insurance? My guess is many might be quietly glad to be free of the clutches of an odious undue enrichment scheme from which they benefited a lot, and the needs of which they understood so little.

JACK LABUSCH

Niles