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Myth Buster 101, Pt.3 – (1)State or Federal level?

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As Gary explains the purpose of clarifying some currant health insurance/care proposals of importance performed by the organization, “We’ve fact-checked six of the most pervasive proposals below, and it’s clear we won’t reach solutions with flat tax credits and caps on malpractice lawsuit payouts, as the fact check illustrates.” So here are their findings concerning health insurance/care reform:

1) “Myth:  Health care reform is best left to individual states.”

 “Truth: An effective and efficient U.S. health system cannot be constructed one state at a time. The sum of state reform does not equal reform on a national level”

For the exact wording of the explanations, I would refer to Mr. Kazanjian’s original article which is found at www.americanprogress.org. But here’s the gist of it. As co-creator Mitt Romney has recently reported in his fine ‘opinion’ article, on Saturday, the Massachusetts health insurance/care model project has made the grade. (For an in-depth review of it, please read the series “Mass. Health, A Creator Explains”.) Mitt’s closing suggestion was all the other states should follow his lead and adapt a health insurance/care system like theirs.

Were it only that simple. What the ‘Center’ found was that a state model can provide a “framework and feasibility of solutions” for a successful health insurance/care system. They can provide an excellent “testing ground” for a certain structure of health insurance/care system. But they can’t succeed without the heavy budgeting assistance and authority of the Federal government required to provide ‘affordable health insurance for all’. There would be wide inequities between states. What’s more, it would be next to impossible to achieve uniform cooperation between the many states. Without the leadership of a superior governing body, there would be no uniformity and the confusion would be unmanageable.

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