Reason magazine: on Health Care


Justin Amash: Private market with government backstop at state level

I think you can have some sort of government backstop, but it should be handled at the state level, not at the federal level. So you mostly want to have a private market and then you want to have some kind of backstop for people who don't have proper coverage. And that might be some kind of expansion of a Medicaid-style system or something like that, that's handled at the state level and gives people the assurance that when they need healthcare, there will be someone to cover it.
Source: Reason magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls May 1, 2020

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