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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Wed Jan 10, 2007 at 19:05:43 PM MST
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| Sen. Ted Kennedy has a health care plan to offer -- a remarkably easy-to-understand one to boot: Medicare For All.
It won't be much of a surprise that I think this is a great idea. I recently highlighted a New York Times article that makes plain that the sheer administrative burden of multiple insurers is a major headache. While Medicare for All wouldn't exclude private insurers, it would make dealing with them unnecessary for most physicians. Specialists and high-end doctors could deal with them -- and charge accordingly -- but the rest of us could see significant savings just from having a common plan.
Atrios points out another reason why simply signing people up for health insurance makes more sense than trying to require them to buy health insurance and then offering subsidies for the low-income. Rather than wasting a lot of time on subsidy evaluations and enforcement, you just collect taxes and then provide coverage. Now, under this sytem, the rich would pay a lot more for their health insurance than the low-income would, but since we all subsidize the uninsured who just get their health care at the emergency room, this really isn't a big deal.
Medicare for all is solid. Of course, even if the Dems rallied around it, it would face a filibuster and veto. Frankly, though, all the more reason to pass it. Republicans want to bash on Medicare? Fine, make 'em filibuster apple pie while they're at it. |
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