“The basics for creating a workable, affordable system that insures everyone and keeps private insurance and personal choice intact are these: First, create incentives for those who can afford insurance to actually purchase it. … Second, create an exchange to help make buying insurance easier for individual-as opposed to corporate-buyers. The exchange lowers premiums. … Third, help the poor buy their own private insurance with a sliding-scale subsidy.”
Willard or Barack?
“If Americans enjoyed better health and longevity than people in other countries, it might be reasonable to argue that our excessive health-care spending is simply a rational consumer choice. But the life span of the average American is less than that of people in nations that spend far less. Japanese men outlive American men by five years; Frenchmen outlive us by three years. To put it bluntly, we spend more and die sooner.”
Willard or Barack?
Watching him squirm on this in a primary is going to be enjoyable. On the other hand, its been way too easy to underestimate the cognitive dissonance that the conservative GOP is willing to live with in pursuit of power, so maybe this will just be another thing to overlook, like the myth of GOP fiscal responsibility and the evils of regulation in financial markets.
