Health Analyst Says There Are Better Ways To Expand Health Coverage Than Public Option

Posted by University of New Mexico/Talk Radio News Service on October 27, 2009 |

Michael Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies at the CATO Institute gives recommendations for alternatives to the public option.

“If you reform the tax treatment to employer sponsored health insurance so that workers can control the $10,000 of their earnings that employers now control, and they can take that money and buy secure coverage from any source,” said Cannon. “If you let people purchase insurance from across state lines, that could cover one third of the uninsured, without any new taxes or new government subsidies.” (0:29)

 
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October 27, 2009
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