[lbo-talk] TNR: universal health care now!

John Lacny jlacny at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 16 18:12:04 PST 2006


Doug Henwood:


> Now, even the New Republic supports some kind of
> universal health insurance scheme

Yes, but this editorial doesn't quite come out in favor of single-payor, does it? I think that what TNR is saying may be compatible with the sort of thing that people like Ed Rendell have proposed: "catastrophic" coverage for everyone, but you're still pretty much on your own until you hit a pretty high deductible. Notice they say "universal health insurance," a variant on another euphemism -- "universal coverage" -- which is deliberately designed so that the person who uses it does not commit himself to a single-payor position.

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