Universal Health Care
In the article “ A Near-Universal Health-Care Plan That Wouldn’t Break the Bank ” the editorial board of The Washington Post explore a middle ground for government funded health care. The authors describe a proposal released by the Economist at the Urban Institute for a health care plan that would potentially satisfy people who are extremely for or against government health care. The plan would take advantage of the pros of universal health care, such as making health care accessible to a lot more people, but would also limit the cons, such as large government spending. The plan would keep Medicare and employer based health care but create a new system for everyone else. Government would help pay for those buying insurance and the subsidies would be scaled with income (those who make a very small amount of money would get a larger amount of money), and those who could, would still pay premiums. Those who this article was written for fall in the middle of the road when it co...