I understand each part, but wonder what political candidate, today or in the future, could pull together the voting public segments to run on it, and then get the Congress to pass it.
Link to Friedman Column
And the following column on how even with health insurance, people can have problems paying for their health care. My initial reaction was sympathy for them as I know a $6,000 individual max-out-pocket or $10,000 family max-out-of-pocket is unaffordable for someone making $40,000 a year unless they cut back on something else in their budget. But then I thought about the fact that they would have probably been dead 60 years ago with the same chronic illness. Surely, having access to some health insurance that is means tested is better than having no health insurance. That is what ObamaCare has given us and that is what Heritage Foundation/RomneyCare/ObamaCare was designed to do.
And what can society afford to pay for this care, collectively we are paying 20% of GDP for health care, and someone in this economy is earning that 20% of GDP. While I would like a single payer plan, the transition to it is going to be disruptive to a certain % of people and that will create a different type of financial chaos within certain families. And how do we make a single payer plan affordable? It cannot be free and therefore, how does it help the people in this article?
Better minds than I, who understand health care, should be writing about all this.
Anyway, this column is worth pursuing.
Link to article
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