# How to Fix Health Care **URL:** **By** Michael F. Cannon, Aaron Ross Powell, Trevor Burrus **Published:** March 10, 2014 --- Michael Cannon discusses a topic people seem to love getting into debates over: health care and the idea of government health care reform. Can't we just come up with a system that gives people as much health care as each of them needs? Is it the government's responsibility to do that? _Can_ the government do that? What about the market—what would a free market in health care look like? Would it look anything like the system we have now? Michael Cannon joins Aaron and Trevor to help answer these questions. Cannon is the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies. **Show Notes and Further Reading:** Michael F. Cannon, [_Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It_](http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Competition-Whats-Holding-Health/dp/1930865813/) (book) David Goldhill, [Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father—and How We Can Fix It](http://www.amazon.com/Catastrophic-Care-American-Health-Father/dp/0307961540) (book) Michael F. Cannon, [_50 Vetoes: How States Can Stop the Obama Health Care Law_](http://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/50-vetoes-how-states-can-stop-obama-health-care-law/) (white paper) Gallup Poll: [Majority in U.S. Say Healthcare Not Gov't Responsibility](http://www.gallup.com/poll/165917/majority-say-healthcare-not-gov-responsibility.aspx) (November 18, 2013)