The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette has published an editorial by Mitch Roob entitled “Personal Responsibility, Health Care Meet.” He cites some grim statistics relative to Hoosiers and health care and also the problem of lack of transparency in health care pricing. Then he goes on to describe the Governor’s health care plan which features an account maintained by the insured with $1,100 in it. There is apparently some kind of sliding scale that determines how much of that is supplied by the state and how much by the enrollee. That account is used to pay the insured’s deductible. If there is money left at the end of the year, and the enrollee meets certain conditions, the person will get some of the money in the account. One of the conditions is that the enrollee must get the mandated preventative care.
Sounds decent, as far as it goes, but Roob can’t be expected to bring up the negative aspects of the plan, if any.
[tags]Mitch Roob, health care[/tags]
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