Covering the Uninsured Without Obamacare

What everyone needs to recognize before the Health Care Summit later today is that the uninsured can be covered at modest additional net cost without the government takeover of health care, government health care rationing, 100 new health control bureaucracies and programs, and trillion dollars in new taxes and spending (woefully underestimated) involved in Obamacare.

The lack of a clear safety net for the uninsured is what gives Democrats the political lift to keep coming back for socialized medicine.  Republicans should advance the modest reforms necessary to establish a true safety net that will ensure that no one will be denied essential health care.  Only that will permanently protect the health care of the American people from government takeover and control.  Republicans should trumpet this point at the health care summit tomorrow.

Reform should start with Medicaid, which already spends over $400 billion a year providing substandard coverage for 50 million poor Americans.  Congress should transform Medicaid to provide assistance to purchase private health insurance for all who otherwise could not afford coverage, ideally with health insurance vouchers.

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