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Ensuring Choice and Universal Coverage
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| Contributor | Imperator |
| Last Edited | Imperator Aug 06, 2013 04:03am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Henry Olsen & Brad Wassink |
| News Date | Tuesday, August 6, 2013 10:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Conservatives and libertarians have criticized the IPAB “death panel” that Obamacare endows with the authority to make top-down decisions about Americans’ health care. They’ve discussed how mandates for religious employers, businesses, and individuals run counter to the Constitution and the principle of personal choice. They’ve issued calls for Republican governors to resist Medicaid expansion in their respective states in order to impede the law’s implementation.
But now a number of conservative groups have issued a blanket Obamacare ultimatum: “If you fund it, you’re for it.”
Conservatives of all stripes are united in their opposition to Obamacare. But we are not united in what we might want in its place. If not Obamacare, what kind of health reform do we want? How should our values be reflected in policy, and why?
We have failed to engage those questions at a deep level, and we have struggled to articulate and defend our answers in a way that resonates with most Americans. Obamacare is now law, and our agenda for health reform is rooted in opposition — not in making the case for how conservative principles can serve as the foundation for something better.
Today AEI is launching a big-think proposal for comprehensive health reform that aims to fill that gap and spark substantive discussion. Titled “Best of Both Worlds” and authored by eight renowned economists from Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and the University of Southern California, the plan puts forward a market-based post-Obamacare replacement that guarantees both universal coverage and individual choice. It was formulated to answer a basic question: “If we could design the health-care-financing system from scratch, what would we build, and why?” |
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