Monday, December 3, 2007

State House Call Video: Tarren Bragdon on Affordable, Private Insurance

By Tarren R. Bragdon

Categories: Insurance Regulation

America's a wealthy country, but our approach to health care makes it hard for people to get health insurance outside of their workplace.

Tarren Bragdon, a health policy analyst who does work for both the Maine Heritage Policy Center and the Empire Center for New York State Policy, talks about the difficulty that residents of Maine and New York face in buying health insurance on their own.

Bragdon comments that he isn't interested in telling people what insurance they must buy, or even that they must buy it. But, he says, the goal of health care analysts should be to point to ways that they can enable people to buy a private, affordable health insurance plan.