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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow much is "Obamacare" like the original Heritage Plan?
Is it any surprise that there have been so many difficulties with its implementation?
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How much is "Obamacare" like the original Heritage Plan? (Original Post)
kentuck
Nov 2013
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doc03
(35,328 posts)1. Well how much is Obamacare like the original Heritage Plan?
That is the question?
solarhydrocan
(551 posts)2. You can read the original paper by Stewart Butler here
Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans
Stewart M. Butler Heritage Foundation
http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/assuring-affordable-health-care-for-all-americans
The United States spends over 11 percent of its gross national product on health care. That translates into more than $2,000 per person each year - more than the per capita GN P of many countries. Yet although the U.S. spends far more than any other country on health care, there are gaping holes in the system's coverage, and health care services are gripped by runaway inflation...
...2) Mandate all households to obtain adequate insurance. Many states now require passengers in automobiles to wear seatbelts for their own protection. Many others require anybody driving a car to have li a bility insurance. But neither the federal government nor any state requires all households to protect themselves from the potentially catastrophic costs of a serious accident or illness. Under the Heritage plan, there would be such a requirement.
This mandate is based on two important principles. First, that health care protection is a responsibility of individuals, not businesses. Thus to the extent that anybody should be required to provide coverage to a family, the household mandate assumes that it is the family that carries the first responsibility.
Second, it assumes that there is an implicit contract between households and society, based on the notion that health insurance is not like other forms of insurance protection. If a young man wrecks his Porsche and has not had the foresight to obtain insurance, we may commiserate but society feels no obligation to repair his car. But health care is different.
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http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/assuring-affordable-health-care-for-all-americans
The health insurance mandate in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is an idea hatched in 1989 by Stuart M. Butler at Heritage in a publication titled "Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans".[21] This was also the model for Mitt Romney's health care plan in Massachusetts.[22]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_foundation#Policy_influence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_foundation#Policy_influence
pampango
(24,692 posts)3. Or how much is it like the plan enacted by Democrats in Massachusetts over Romney's veto?
I suppose for our conservative relatives it is better to emphasize the Heritage connection.
doc03
(35,328 posts)4. What! Romney vetoed Romneycare? n/t
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)5. Several parts of it. Google it. nt