Republican RX

Wall Street Journal article on Sen. Tom Coburn’s free-market healthcare reform proposals.

Mr. Coburn, like the White House, would remove the subsidy corporations get for health care, and instead give the money to individuals–putting them in charge of their health expenditures. It would expand HSAs, and allow consumers to buy insurance from any state, thereby avoiding costly regulations. It would modernize Medicare, allowing workers to invest their payroll taxes into a savings account and control their care in their retirement years. It would free up the states to inject Medicaid with new flexibility and competition.