The Essence of McCain’s Health Plan: Don’t Get Sick
September 17th, 2008 by Sonny
Jonathan Cohn on the McCain health plan:
The Essence of McCain’s Health Plan: Don’t Get Sick – The Plank
Fewer people with health insurance. Weaker insurance for those who already have it. This is McCain’s solution to the anxiety over rising medical bills?
With a steady decline in the number of people covered by employers, do we really want to remove incentives for employers to offer coverage? As I’ve said before, the only really bright side to the McCain plan is that it might actually piss off enough people to reach a tipping point, then we might see the systemic reform that the curretn system sorely needs.
