This does look like the Romney/Clinton plan in a lot of respects-
- Mandatory Health Insurance
- With Government Subsidies to cover those who can't afford to be insured
I think this plan is a good comprimise. We need to ensure that everyone has health insurance, but we should allow for competition and responsibility as well.
I think Obama's plan is closer to this, but without the loss of civil and economic liberties.
McCain's plan is just to give out free money to people and hope for the best.
Actually, what's mandatory is the Medical Savings Accounts, not health insurance.
So, people would actually pay themselves if something bad enough came up? I guess that would work if there was price controls and mandatory co-pays.
As the article says too, the government offers low-cost catastrophic insurance under a stringent means-test for those who cannot afford it.
...I guess that would work. But Snowguy has a point about children. Old People, not so much. The graph was skeewed. Then again, our economy depends on our ability to reduce the numbers of years that people are infeebled before death by being able to succesfully manipulate the aging process until geriatrics is no longer an issue or the geriatric period between youth and death is made a lot shorter and cheaper.
