thread: 2009-05-08 : Super Briefly for Seth and Rob
On 2009-05-09, Josh W wrote:
From a backwards angle, this looks like what people tried to implement in the UK at one point: You get a tax that pays for basic healthcare, but if you want you can opt out of that and into the insurance system.
So how is it stupider? Well presumably because you might end up paying the tax and getting nothing! And that's seriously bad because it sets a baseline in the market that $500= 0 healthcare, and all healthcare competition is just shifted up above that line. If it was $500= pretty tidy healthcare, then that would not be so bad, it might even end up out-competing the insurance guys, but then I've just waved a magic wand of sums to make it happen, so perhaps that's not surprising!
