Committee Recommends Massachusetts Plan for Ohio
A health care reform committee appointed by Ohio governor Ted Strickland has released its recommendations for changing Ohio's health care system. To save you some time, I'll summarize — require everyone have health insurance, significantly increase regulations on insurance companies, expand Medicaid, and give people subsidies to purchase health insurance.
What really amazes me is that they want to force insurance companies to accept anyone who applies for insurance but also force them to offer "affordable" insurance. Apparently there were few economists on this committee.
It's unclear what the prospects of reform are in Ohio. No one seems to have noticed that the Massachusetts plan isn't really living up to its promises. Although the state is facing budget problems and this plan is likely to be quite expensive if fully adopted, those problems have never stood in the way of politicians looking to "do something" in the past.
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