Lord help me, I'm a wonk

[teddywolf]

I'm leaning toward hoping Hillary Clinton as the Democratic candidate due to her health care proposal. Not quite as sweeping a proposal as single-payer, but a damn sight better than what we have.

I'll post more on my general opinions of the candidates when I don't have to prep for work.

Comments

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Actually, you're wrong about it forcing people to buy into the overpriced insurance system.

Hillary Clinton's plan has a couple of points in its favor that the Romney plan does not: capping premiums as a percentage of income, allowing people to buy into the government plan (which is a much less expensive plan, I have to tell you), and a strong education about who is eligible for the government plan. If I had known, during the 90s, that I was eligible for state health care owing to my income status, I would have gotten on it. I had no clue. And if you were earning barely above minimum wage, you would have been eligible too I think.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

At least in MA, there are also very inexpensive plans available for young, healthy workers. And the subsidies vary by income level -- though a single person earning just above minimum wage will pay *something* for health care.