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More Health Care Reform Plan Blogging

Posted on September 16, 2008

From Ezra Klein: EzraKlein Archive The American Prospect: MCCAIN'S HEALTH CARE PLAN: HEALTH INSURANCE YOU CAN'T BELIEVE IN, OR RELY ON: Health Affairs has released two papers offering critical analyses of the candidate's health care plans today, and one paper outlining what a synthesis approach would look like. The first, written by Thomas Buchmueller, Sherry A. Glied, Anne Royalty, and Katherine Swartz, examines the cost and coverage implications of McCain's proposal. Senator McCain's health plan has three central features, they write. Withdrawing the current tax exclusion of employer p...

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