“Rather than Medicaid, it’s better to give a Health Snap with an amount of money on it for a health policy only. Have it based on income level, so that the lower end gets 100% of the set price and the upper end of assistees get a lesser percentage.”
The percentage should be no higher than 80% ($7.25/hour is 20% of $36.25/hour).
My proposal, version 4.7, provides for block grants to hospitals to cover the exceptional cases, such as homeless people, people that have been crippled by auto accidents, heart attacks, etc.:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~briangriffin/
I like that. It is a push to work and not just a requirement.
I have no adverse reaction to giving money to hospitals other than they are bureaucracies, and bureaucracies shuck, jive, hide, double-speak on their way to corruption.
If there were a way to control that, I'd be on board.