Critical to Giuliani’s plan is a $15,000 tax deduction for families to buy private health insurance, instead of getting insurance through employers. Any leftover funds could be rolled over year-to-year for medical expenses.
From Giuliani Offers Health Care Plan – New York Times
This is not a health care plan. This isn’t even a tax cut. It is a subsidy for the health insurance companies. You know that little box on your tax return that allows you to divert $1 or $5 to some special cause? This is just like that except that the money goes to an insurance company.
As far as Mr. Giuliani’s insistence that Government can not help; one is left to wonder why he has such a low opinion of the institution he wishes to be the head of. And why he has such a low opinion of his fellow American’s that he feels that we alone are unable to have a Government that can handle basic tasks like health care.
It would be one thing if he argued that the private sector can do it better. That’s a legitimate argument one can make. It is another to claim the private sector can not solve the problem when this is ample evidence to suggest that it can and has.
More on the topic on Slate.
