Jennifer Rubin in Simple and Cheap points to Jeffrey Anderson who culled all the best Republican proposals for health care reform and put them on a single page.
1. Leave employer-provided insurance as it is and give individuals a $2,500 tax credit to equalize tax treatment for individuals who buy their own insurance.
2. Allow individuals to buy insurance across state lines.
3. Extend COBRA for up to 30 months, allowing people to keep their insurance if they leave a job.
4. Remove government regulations limiting insurers from offering premium breaks for healthy lifestyle choices.
5. Enact real malpractice reform (limit punitive damages to $250,000 and all noneconomic damages to $750,000).
6. Provide help to encourage insurance pools for the hard to insure.
Over 10 years Anderson’s plan would spend $75B and include $345M in tax cuts.
At least even Congressmen would be able to read the whole thing.
Posted by Jill Fallon at October 7, 2009 8:01 PM | Permalink