Universal health care using vouchers instead of mandates?
Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 11:15AM
Skeptic in Health Care

Peter Fuad has posted as comment #5 to this Paul Krugman post a very clever idea to improve and reframe the Democratic proposals for universal health care.  In addition to improving the workability of "mandates," it co-opts the Republican language of "vouchers."  Fuad points out that what is at stake is not a socialized medical delivery system but a socialized medical payment system. 

Update on Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 02:31PM by Registered CommenterSkeptic

For Krugman's comment on why Obama is unwittingly undermining the Dem dream of universal healthcare, go here.  So far this has stirred up 95 comments (which I did not have the time/energy to read).

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