However, once you stop requiring people to have health insurance before they get sick, you cease to have a true insurance system. Paul’s proposal to “allow any individual, including self-employed individuals, to form associations for the purpose of purchasing group health insurance” would go a long way toward solving this policy dilemma. This is exactly how many employer-sponsored health insurance plans work today. Paul, himself a physician, understands that to solve the United States’ health care problems, we need innovative solutions like his proposal to expand association health plans. What we absolutely don’t need, however, is tweaks to a model that has long failed to provide affordable, quality health insurance coverage to all Americans.

Source: Fox News July 06, 2017 04:04 UTC