In this tussle, Democrats, by pushing an optional, self-sustaining, government-run insurer to keep private insurers honest, may be offering a more clear-cut proposal for increasing competition than their free-market counterparts on the other side of the aisle.
Whereas the Democrats’ plan would operate in the existing marketplace, many Republicans would like to revamp that marketplace completely — something that makes most Americans queasy. Ideas range from dismantling Medicaid to upending the system of employer-provided health care so that insurers cater to the people they cover, rather than the companies that pay for that coverage."
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Interesting article. One might argue that radical market based reforms with subsidies for low income would be most effective. But these would be subject to the same demagoguery facing ObamaPelosiBaucusCare.
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