I totally disagree with that. The government should not be in the position of selecting what kind of coverage is allowed.
Better to have a food stamp type program, because at least in food stamps the buyer can buy whatever thay want at the grocery store even if it's s dumb purchase. They get a set amount of money, and they go into the free market and buy.
They go into the free market and buy and the result is the lowest food prices in the world.
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.
Then they go onto the open market at buy a health plan of their choice. If they get a cheap catastrophic plan, then the remaining Health Snap money can pay for routine doctor visits.
Every food stamp family in the USA could get 10,000,000 and the program will cost about 300 billion a year, far less than every other plan being discussed.
Able bodied people will be required to work.
“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/