his numbers aren t close to adding up. he s not offered nearly enough spending cuts to get down to his $500 billion cut in 2016. that means no one really knows what the spending cuts will mean for them. which brings us to health care. romney s been very specific on his attention to repeal the affordable care act and laid out broad goals for the health care system he d like to build in its place. he wants to turn medicaid over to the states, to let insurers sell insurance from whichever state has the lightest regulations, much as credit card companies do now. that s why your credit bills tend to come from south dakota or delaware. he d also like to cap medical malpractice awards. like with mccain, the core of his plan is, quote, to end tax discrimination against the individual purchase of insurance. to make it such that getting insurance through your employer and on your own are treated the same by the tax code. how will he do that? he hasn t said. the most comprehensive document the ca
if it wants to regulate its health care as it currently does, health insurance options, we passed a federal law saying insurers can go to south dakota where they have fewer regulations and sell to californians, it doesn t seem california can actually do much to take control of its own health care destiny. seems in effect we re all essentially hostage to whichever state wants to offer health care insurance the sweetest deal so they willow kate there, pay taxes there, create jobs there. the key to health insurance is to have healthier people and sicker people all pulled together. if you have to buy insurance based on your medical conditions, if you have medical conditions, if you re sick or can t afford it, it costs a fortune. the risk here is that you would get states in which the insurance industry is the most powerful, that were able to set up insurance plans that were targeted just to the healthiest people. and healthy people all across the country maybe could get inexpensive ins
he said he ll cut medicaid quite substantially, for instance. he s increasing defense spending by $1 trillion. his numbers aren t close to adding up. he s not offered nearly enough spending cuts to get down to his $500 billion cut in 2016. that means no one really knows what the spending cuts will mean for them. which brings us to health care. romney s been very specific on his attention to repeal the affordable care act and laid out broad goals for the health care system he d like to build in its place. he wants to turn medicaid over to the states, to let insurers sell insurance from whichever state has the lightest regulations, much as credit card companies do now. that s why your credit bills tend to come from south dakota or delaware. he d also like to cap medical malpractice awards. like with mccain, the core of his plan is, quote, to end tax discrimination against the individual purchase of insurance. to make it such that getting insurance through your employer and on your own ar
he has released some specifics. he said he ll cut medicaid quite substantially, for instance. he s increasing defense spending by $1 trillion. his numbers aren t close to adding up. he s not offered nearly enough spending cuts to get down to his $500 billion cut in 2016. that means no one really knows what the spending cuts will mean for them. which brings us to health care. romney s been very specific on his attention to repeal the affordable care act and laid out broad goals for the health care system he d like to build in its place. he wants to turn medicaid over to the states, to let insurers sell insurance from whichever state has the lightest regulations, much as credit card companies do now. that s why your credit bills tend to come from south dakota or delaware. he d also like to cap medical malpractice awards. like with mccain, the core of his plan is, quote, to end tax discrimination against the individual purchase of insurance. to make it such that getting insurance through
states more power. there s a real tension here. if california wants to regulate if it wants to regulate its health care as it currently does, health insurance options, we passed a federal law saying insurers can go to south dakota where they have fewer regulations and sell to californians, it doesn t seem california can actually do much to take control of its own health care destiny. seems in effect we re all essentially hostage to whichever state wants to offer health care insurance the sweetest deal so they willow kate there, pay taxes there, create jobs there. the key to health insurance is to have healthier people and sicker people all pulled together. if you have to buy insurance based on your medical conditions, if you have medical conditions, if you re sick or can t afford it, it costs a fortune. the risk here is that you would get states in which the insurance industry is the most powerful, that were able to set up insurance plans that were targeted just to the healthiest