Ed Dolan on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
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Universal Catastrophic Coverage
The increasing predictability of healthcare risks means that only insurance companies are willing to insure healthy people. NISCAIN and Center promote a paradoxical idea, an oxymoronic idea, called the free market welfare state. People should pay for their own healthcare to the extent that they are able to, financially able to, says John Avlon. The government should protect them only from financially ruin us healthcare spending, he adds.
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