Which state governor favors a low-cost approach to health care?”
Sen. John McCain on Tuesday detailed his plan to solve the nation’s health-care crisis, calling for the federal government to give some money to states to help them cover people with illnesses who have been denied health insurance. McCain’s plan would shift the emphasis from health insurance provided by employers to health insurance bought by individuals, to foster competition and drive down prices. To do so, he is calling for eliminating the tax breaks that encourage employers to provide health insurance for workers and replacing them with $5,000 tax credits for families to buy their own insurance. His call for expanding coverage through market-based competition differs from the Democrats’ proposals to move toward universal health-care coverage, with government subsidies to help lower-income people afford their premiums. McCain had previously described aspects of his health-care plan. On Tuesday, he offered details on how to cover people with existing health problems, in a nod to the
Taxpayers in Washington State are among the first Americans to be enrolled forcibly in—and then to escape from—a Clinton-style health care plan. At the height of the Clinton Administration’s health care reform fever in 1993, Washington’s legislators passed their own state-level plan: the Washington Health Services Act of 1993. This plan not only was a carbon copy of the Clinton health plan, but also was influenced heavily by Clinton Administration officials who praised Washington State as a test case of their comprehensive proposals. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton confirmed that the “features of the Washington plan will still be the features of any plan that comes out of Congress….”1 For his part, Washington Governor Mike Lowry said he was “pleased that President Clinton’s reform proposals so closely resemble Washington State’s new law.”2 The Washington State plan3 included all of the original Clinton plan’s key elements, including: * A powerful new bureaucracy; * Higher taxes; *
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