Putting the Insurance Back in Insurance
Barack Obama will soon send Hillary Clinton packing back to the Senate. Once she's gone, he needs to borrow one of the key tenets of her health care plan. She's right about health insurance: It needs to be mandatory. The Massachusetts Remedy That's not just a Democratic idea. Mitt Romney came to the same conclusion. As governor of Massachusetts, he implemented one of the most innovative state-level health care reforms. A key piece of that reform is mandatory health coverage. Obviously, many people can't afford health insurance -- that's the reason they don't have it in the first place. But Romney's plan in Massachusetts provided government subsidies to make insurance more affordable for low-income residents. Any sensible program at the federal level would do the same. That would leave no excuses: Everyone would have to have some kind of health insurance -- through an employer, through Medicaid or Medicare, or through some other approved plan. In the Massachu...