A libertarian health-care proposal:

[Aquila]

Interesting article...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democ...l_single-payer

A libertarian health-care proposal

Jan 22nd 2010, 20:41 by The Economist

MEGAN MCARDLE has a plan:

“Raise the Medicare tax by half a percentage point, and eliminate the tax-deductibiity of health insurance benefits for people making more than $150K a year in household income, $100K for singles. Then make the federal government the insurer of last resort. Any medical expenses more than 15% or 20% of household income, get picked up by Uncle Sam.”

Interesting plan.

Thoughts???

[Pressing-On]

Keep taxing & spending on health insurance, and the government picks up the tab? That doesn't sound fiscally sound at all. It's definitely not Libertarian. Do you think it sounds Libertarian?

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Keep taxing & spending on health insurance, and the government picks up the tab? That doesn't sound fiscally sound at all. It's definitely not Libertarian. Do you think it sounds Libertarian?

It was simply an idea. I wanted to know some of your thoughts on it.

[Monterrey]

The low income are those who are still going to suffer.

[deacon blues]

Originally Posted by Monterrey

The low income are those who are still going to suffer.

I wonder why low income people suffer? Maybe it's because they have low income?