Monday, October 6, 2008

Health Alert: McCain vs. the Critics, Part II

By John Goodman

Here are two radically different approaches to health reform:

The McCain health plan subsidizes, dollar-for-dollar, the core insurance everyone should have, forcing people to buy additional coverage (all the bells and whistles and items of questionable value) with their own funds.
By contrast, a Commonwealth-Fund-Center-for-American-Progress-and-maybe-also-Barack-Obama approach forces people to buy core insurance with their own funds, leaving them free to purchase the bells and whistles and items of questionable value with taxpayer money.

You might think this second idea was produced late at night after too many glasses of wine. But no. I found it at their Web sites here and here in the sober light of day. It has even been in Health Affairs here [gated but has abstract]. (Whatever happened to peer review?)

Continue Reading at John Goodman's Health Blog