I was listening to Rich Lowry today articulate an alternative to Obama-care on Meet The Press

[Tony_FLADEM]

that involves high risk pools and giving people a tax credit to get insurance.

Isn't the high risk pool idea a more government centered approach than simply having people purchase insurance on an exchange and involving healthy people to help share the risk?

Since most of the people in the high risk pool would incur health care costs, it would need to subsidized by the U.S. taxpayer.

Their approach involves more government than the Democrats plan and they don't realize this.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Dpending on how you do it, risk pools can be...

a good thing or a bad thing. or nothing at all. I have no idea how he wants to use them.

Tax credits, though, are the worst sort of fraud. Seems to me most people who need subsidized healthcare don't make enough to pay that much in taxes, so credits become imaginary. And the people who get the credits already make a shitpot of money and don't need yet another excuse to pay less taxes.

[madrchsod]

2. oh for christ`s sake ..medicare/universal healthcare for all

[JDPriestly]

3. What good is a tax credit if you don't have income?