comments on the National Review article about the proposal<\/a>!\u00a0 Commenter after commenter, quite determined that, if someone fails to purchase a health insurance policy and becomes sick, it\u2019s their own tough luck.\u00a0 And even when pushed \u2014 that the choice isn\u2019t between VoucherCare and a fully-private, you\u2019re on your own system, but between VoucherCare and ObamaCare \u2014 they still wouldn\u2019t relent.<\/p>\nI suppose this explains why \u201crepeal and replace\u201d never went anywhere \u2014 if a sizable chunk of the GOP has no interest in any form of \u201creplace\u201d!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So the AEI has put out a new proposal for a VoucherCare-like healthcare system, which on the whole I think is pretty promising, but seems to be yet another paper with no real indicators that anyone\u2019s going to aggressively push this.\u00a0 But look at the comments on the National Review article about the proposal!\u00a0 Commenter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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