July 24, 2009 12:35PM 

# Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, WRONG!! 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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The *[Pittsburgh Tribune-Review](http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_635106.html)* quotes Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele on how Congress should go about reforming health care:

> Having Congress reshape health care puts “the wrong people at the table,” Steele said. He said stakeholders — “doctors, lawyers, health care employees, insurance companies” — should develop a solution and present it to Congress, rather than the other way around.

Steele needs to brush up on his [Adam Smith](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations):

> [People](http://www.phrma.org/) [of](http://www.acc.org/) [the](http://www.nmanet.org/) [same](http://www.medicaldevices.org/public/benefits/default.asp) [trade](http://www.ahip.org/) [seldom](http://www.businessroundtable.org/) [meet](http://www.aha.org/aha/about/) [together](http://www.chamberofcommerce.com/public/index.cfm?), [even](http://www.mhpa.org/home/index.cfm) [for](http://www.aaos.org/) [merriment](http://www.bio.org/) [and](http://www.aap.org/) [diversion](http://www.gphaonline.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home), [but](http://www.aace.com/) [the](http://www.acr.org/) [conversation](http://www.healthcare-america.org/index.cfm) [ends](http://www.nfib.com/page/home) [in](http://www.facs.org/) [a](http://www.aapsonline.org/) [conspiracy](http://www.ama-assn.org/) [against](http://www.nam.org/s_nam/sec.asp?CID=99&DID=97) [the](http://www.americangeriatrics.org/) [public](http://www.physicianhospitals.org/home.php), [or](http://www.acog.com/) [in](http://www.aafp.org/) [some](http://www.ashp.org/s_ashp/index.asp) [contrivance](http://www.seiu.org/) [to](http://www.nahu.org/) [raise](http://www.nachc.com/) [prices](http://www.naic.org/).

Like I said, [Jonathan Chait was on to something](https://www.cato.org/2009/07/03/chait-calls-out-conservatives-on-rationing/).

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