Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist -- author of the new book, Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives -- tells Reason magazine's Nick Gillespie in the August-September issue that the three policy reforms he'd most like to snap his fingers and make an overnight reality in America are Social Security privatization, implementing searchable transparency websites at all levels of government and "getting the government out of health care."

A most pressing need with respect to health care, Norquist says, is "allowing you to buy your health care from any state so that you don’t have to live under the mandates and regulations of New Jersey just because you live in New Jersey, but could buy your health insurance from a company in Iowa."

He also tells Reason he'd certainly like to see more movement "towards health savings accounts where people can pre-save and you’re actually spending your own money."

reason: The idea is that will introduce market competition and we will see an improvement in outcomes and the lowering of prices?

Norquist: Absolutely. You can always save overall money with rationing, which is what all these government programs are. We’d rather have competition squeezing down costs.

reason: Is this a pipe dream? Besides spending a hell of a lot of money on war, one of the things that George W. Bush and a Republican Congress spent taxpayer dollars on was the prescription health care benefit package. That’s a legacy of a supposedly conservative government. So are we just inevitably going more and more toward socialized health care?

Norquist: No, I think health savings accounts, which were brought in as part of that whole deal, now have something like 5 million people. Those are growing very rapidly. If we get those numbers up sufficiently, I think [it would] have a real effect.