Joe Biden Says Healthcare Is a Right? Or Is Government the Problem: The Greg Dattilo-Dave Racer interview

Joe Biden in the last Trump/Biden debate said that healthcare is a human right. Is that true? Or is there a better way to get everyone covered without excessive government intervention? Well, I decided to ask my friends Greg Datillo and Dave Racer to come on the podcast to talk about it. For decades, they have been researching healthcare. They're experts on the real situation we are facing in the industry now and how government intervention has created the situation we are in now.

Healthcare may seem scarce and unavailable to some on the Left. But what causes the scarcity? It's because the federal government overregulates the industry. Washington, DC regulations that took full force in the 1965 Great Society programs took us down a dark path. And successive federal efforts to shape the system have caused great harm ever since. Healthcare providers--whether insurance companies or the pharmaceutical industry--keep hidden the real costs. We need to reform the system to those of us who use the system know what we're paying for. Datillo and Racer have developed a plan that can work.

In this podcast, we talk about what brought us to this place where government controls healthcare and some ideas about how we can inject free-market solutions. The problem can be fixed.

The plan that Greg Datillo and Dave Racer have put together can be found at their website, Healthcare 2020: Connecting the Dots.

Since 1975, Greg Dattilo has served as an employee benefits consultant offering health insurance coverage to thousands of Americans. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dattilo Consulting, Inc., and ClientServ, LLC, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Greg is a lecturer on insurance and health care issues, Greg is the co-author with Dave Racer of four national books about the U.S. health care system.

Dave Racer, MLitt, received his Master of Letters Degree from Oxford Graduate School in 2009. Dave’s master’s thesis is titled A Comprehensive Approach to Health Care Reform in the United States: 25 Keys to Understanding the Challenges. Dave is a writer, researcher, publisher, speaker, and teacher. He has written and/or edited more than 50 books, 21 of which focus on health care and health finance issues, five, including this publication, co-authored with Greg Dattilo.