Michael Cannon of The CATO Institute was interviewed on the Glenn Beck program today and was asked a question regarding health insurance reform. Cannon was asked what would happen to the current financial model for health insurance companies once health insurance reform was put into place. Cannon's response was so absurd even Sarah Palin could probably argue the point in a better light.

This first point that Cannon made was clearly thought out:

"Insurance companies save more lives in a single day than President Obama or Nancy Pelosi will save in their entire lifetimes."

Last time I checked insurance companies don't save lives at all. I am pretty sure their entire goal is to make health care more affordable for its customers. That is not happening which is the entire reason for this reform.

The best point that Cannon made was with this following statement. He was talking about what will happen if health insurance reform was put into place, but all he really did was sum up how bad we actually need reform:

"Now President Obama likes to say that the insurance companies won't be able turn you down for coverage because they are going to ban exclusions for pre-existing conditions. But, what the insurance companies can do is they can make life really unpleasant for you. They can deny care, they can have very few specialist in their networks, they can make it so awful for you to have file a claim or get customer service that you're going to switch to another insurance company."

I am fairly certain Michael Cannon's goal was to argue the point that government should stay out of health care. I think what he accomplished was convince everyone watching him that we need a single payer system.