A libertarian health-care proposal:
 

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???

Re: A libertarian health-care proposal:
 

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?

Re: A libertarian health-care proposal:
 

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

Re: A libertarian health-care proposal:
 

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

Re: A libertarian health-care proposal:
 

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