Progressive Nation

June 9th, 2005

‘Advocating Socialized Medicine’

Not really. What I am suggesting is that you shouldn’t believe what gets peddled in two recent op-eds (via Malkin) denouncing the apparent failures of expansive, public health care programs in Britain and Canada, respectively. In spite of the machinations of the right-wing, it is possible to create a highly efficient public, universal health care system. And in spite of the overwrought ambitions of some on the Left, who think we need some new and different policy-fix, the solution is actually amazingly simple. Professor Jacob Hacker of Yale has laid out a brilliant solution called Medicare Plus.

It’s actually quite a simple concept: expand on Medicare, which has worked quite well, to create a system that provides incentivized universal coverage while maximizing choice, access to care, and flexibility. Read about it yourself; Hacker’s presentation on it was one of the high points of the Take Back America conference last week.

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