Detroit News July 7, 2020
We hear increasing calls for greater government involvement in health care as the solution to future pandemics and health care problems in general. Ironically, the pandemic illustrates exactly the opposite.
The American health care system functions with maximum effectiveness when the state provides the infrastructure and private companies supply innovation and health care expertise.
We need a responsive private health care sector and a limited but essential government presence. This is fully consistent with the U.S. Constitution which strictly circumscribes the powers of the federal government, and consistent with our new experience of fighting COVID-19.