Medicaid (was RE: Walzer on the Left)

[Max Sawicky]

There seems to be a lack of proposals that provide a
bridge from incrementalism (tho SCHIP is a pretty
good-sized increment, I think) to full-blown national
health insurance.  Our resident health expert at
EPI, now sadly departed for greener pastures,
was always reluctant to plumb this territory.  One
is to go for state-level systems.  There is a project
on this underway in MD.  But what about something
short of universal but much better than what we
have now?  Have you some ideas in this vein?

max


> Unlike Max I think that this can be accomplished with
> well-reasoned changes
> in policy on a systemic basis (however, like Max my criterion for
> evaluating that policy would be incremental--does it make things better?).
>
> Peace,
>
> Jim
>