For years, Republicans have treated health care as a "Democratic issue" to pay attention to only when necessary.For years, Republicans have treated health care as a "Democratic issue" to pay attention to only when necessary. Slowly it has dawned on them that it is always necessary. Our current health-care policies generate constant problems that, in turn, generate support for further government activism. With relatively little fanfare, President Bush has come out for a free-market free-market Adjective denoting an economic system which allows supply and demand to regulate prices and wages alternative to this path. He has several promising ideas. One, borrowed from Congressman Shadegg, is to let individuals buy insurance policies from other states, and thus leapfrog over their own states' regulations. Another is to make out-of-pocket out-of-pock·et adj. 1. Calling for the spending of cash: out-of-pocket expenses. 2. Lacking funds: hungry, cold, and out-of-pocket travelers. Adj. health expenses deductible That which may be taken away or subtracted. In taxation, an item that may be subtracted from gross income or adjusted gross income in determining taxable income (e.g., interest expenses, charitable contributions, certain taxes). . That step would reduce the tax code's bias toward insurance that covers routine medical expenses that would be more efficiently paid out of pocket. The major criticism of these ideas is that they threaten the status quo [Latin, The existing state of things at any given date.] Status quo ante bellum means the state of things before the war. The status quo to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable, uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy. in the insurance market and the regulatory world--which sounds to us like a recommendation. |
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