A Health Care Plan So Simple…
Today’s NY Times has an article (A Health Care Plan So Simple, Even Stephen Colbert Couldn’t Simplify It by Robert H. Frank an economics professor at Cornell – New York Times, February 15, 2007; page C3) which is worth reading.
In his State of the Union address, President Bush proposed tax cuts to make health insurance more affordable to the uninsured. Apparently Stephen Colbert (of Comedy Central) had this comment on the President’s plan:
“It’s so simple. Most people who can’t afford health insurance also are too poor to owe taxes. But if you give them a deduction from the taxes they don’t owe, they can use the money they’re not getting back from what they haven’t given to buy the health care they can’t afford.”
Which does cast GW’s plan in its proper light… as a cruel joke similar to the rest of his policies.
But Professor Frank goes on to give a very well reasoned case for why a single-payer healthplan makes sense for people at all income levels and why it should save everyone money. He also outlines the underlying motivations for the forces opposing a single-payer system.
Rather than cut and paste a bunch of quotes from the article, I will post a link to the NYTimes copy of the article here.
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