I will be one of the panelists at Democracy Unplugged's Healthcare Reform Forum on July 30 in Media.

To a very left wing audience I will be making the case that they do not want a government operated healthcare system.

The core of fixing healthcare is returning to a free market for both insurance and healthcare services themselves. A tax funded voucher system would provide better options to those who currently lack coverage, and an option to opt-out of the system would ease the moral objections that Libertarians might raise. Such an option will be most unsatisfactory to Socialists, and while Libertarians would have valid objections it provides the most gain with the least loss, and puts in place a much freer healthcare market than the status quo. By both freeing the healthcare market up and eliminating the hidden cost shifting that the current system forces on the market, costs would be reduced.