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1. Give Medicare enrollees a voucher (adjusted for their means and health risk) and let them purchase any health plan on the market,
2. Reform the tax treatment of health care with “large” health savings accounts, which would give workers a $9.7 trillion tax cut (without increasing the deficit) and free them to purchase secure coverage that meets their needs,
3. Free consumers and employers to purchase health insurance across state lines (i.e., licensed by other states), which could cover up to one third of the uninsured,
4. Make state-issued clinician licenses portable, which would increase access to care and competition among health plans, and
5. Block-grant Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, just as Congress did with welfare.
1. Give Medicare enrollees a voucher (adjusted for their means and health risk) and let them purchase any health plan on the market,
2. Reform the tax treatment of health care with “large” health savings accounts, which would give workers a $9.7 trillion tax cut (without increasing the deficit) and free them to purchase secure coverage that meets their needs,
3. Free consumers and employers to purchase health insurance across state lines (i.e., licensed by other states), which could cover up to one third of the uninsured,
4. Make state-issued clinician licenses portable, which would increase access to care and competition among health plans, and
5. Block-grant Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, just as Congress did with welfare.
Unlike the president’s health care proposals (which, as Victor Fuchs explains, would merely shift costs), these reforms would reduce costs, expand coverage, and improve health care quality – without new taxes, government subsidies, or deficit spending.
Would a free market be nirvana? Of course not. But fewer Americans would fall through the cracks than under the status quo or the government takeover advancing through Congress.
There is a better way.
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