Obama’s Plan to End Private Health Insurance
December 2nd, 2008 | by Brian Schwartz |
Writes Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute:
The centerpiece of Barack Obama’s healthcare plan may not seem revolutionary at first. Obama would seek to establish a new public health insurance program that would be offered alongside private insurance packages. This would give consumers a real choice in deciding whether the government or the private sector is better at providing medical coverage, he says.
When explained this way, the Obama plan sounds like a nonpartisan, common-sense approach to healthcare reform. But don’t be fooled: it would lead to the deterioration of the private health insurance market, with the federal government—read: taxpayers—covering an increasingly large share of the U.S. population.
Read the rest at The American.
tags: mandated benefits, Obama Care
