[lbo-talk] Ron Paul

[Jordan Hayes]

>> http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=474
>>
>> generally describes Paul's health care reform plan legislation,
>> which essentially includes providing dollar for dollar tax
>> credit (not just a deductible) for medical insurance payments up
>> to the total amount of income tax and allows tax free savings
>> accounts for paying the high deductibles on insurance.

Note that this has some similarity to both Hillary and Barack's plans, 
except the problem -- as Marta rightly points out -- is that without a 
few other features, this is really lousy.  The features, which Ron Paul 
would be against (because it's "too much government"), are:

- Require portability
- Require guaranteed access
- Require premiums to be reasonable

Otherwise it's just a nice little way for healthy working people to pay 
insurance companies.  If you're sick?  You can get dropped.  Changing 
jobs?  Can get denied.  Don't pay enough taxes to afford $2k/mo?  Tough 
shit, you can just die.

/jordan