The Dems had complete control of the government and gave us this mess. Simply reforming Medicare and fazing all adults into the system would have worked.
As long as we had the option to keep the insurance we had this (political) problem would have been over.
Hurray for Health Reform - NYTimes.com
As long as we had the option to keep the insurance we had this (political) problem would have been over.
Hurray for Health Reform - NYTimes.com
The solution — originally proposed, believe it or not, by analysts at the ultra-right-wing Heritage Foundation — is a three-legged stool of regulation and subsidies. As in New York, insurers are required to cover everyone; in return, everyone is required to buy insurance, so that healthy as well as sick people are in the risk pool. Finally, subsidies make those mandated insurance purchases affordable for lower-income families.
Can such a system work? It’s already working! Massachusetts enacted a very similar reform six years ago — yes, while Mitt Romney was governor. Jonathan Gruber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who played a key role in developing both the local and the national reforms (and has published an illustrated guide to reform) has surveyed the results — and finds that Romneycare is working pretty much as advertised. The number of people without insurance has dropped sharply, the quality of care hasn’t suffered, and the program’s cost has been very close to initial projections.
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