Has He Read the Book?

At yesterday's White House Summit on Health Care Reform, President Obama had this to say:

If there is a way of getting this done, where we’re driving down costs and people are getting health insurance at an affordable rate and have choice of doctor, have flexibility in terms of their plans, and we could do that entirely through the market, I’d be happy to do it that way.

Well, Mr. President, may I recommend Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It for a detailed proposal for how to accomplish this without turning one-seventh of our economy and some of our most important, personal, and private decisions over to the tender mercies of the federal government.

Of course, as my colleague Michael Cannon points out, no one who supports free market proposals to drive down costs and give consumers greater choice of providers and insurers was actually invited to the summit.

The ball is back in your court, Mr. President.