September 10, 2007

Last Friday, David Brooks weighed on the need for a new - and uniquely American - social contract for health care. In developing a vision for that contract, Brooks draws on the work of Stuart Butler, a health policy researcher at the Heritage Foundation:

First, [Butler] would create tax-exempt "insurance exchanges." These would be sponsored by trusted agents - unions, churches and other social groups. Organized like the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, they would offer menus of coverage choices and create diverse risk pools.

Third, Congress would offer a health care tax credit to families mkaing up to 200 percent of the poverty level, and would tighten benefits for the affluent. Fourth, states could come up with their own ways to regulate this system.

A full description of Butler's plan can be found at the Hamilton Project.

Posted by Paul Howard at September 10, 2007 02:12 PM

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