Health-care fallacies

Barry Moldover's letter about health-care reform (Readers' Forum, Oct. 24) contains at least three faulty premises:

1. The "majority" of us want a "public option." We don't.

2. Nothing "controls" the prices of private health insurance companies. There is. It's free market competition, except to the extent that government regulation inhibits it (such as the inability to buy health insurance across state lines).

3. A "public option" would help "control" prices. It wouldn't. Government inefficiency would increase health-care costs and prices. Since when has the government "option" ever reduced prices, increased output and improved quality?

Almost never.

The free market does that.

Gregory Hess

Kaysville