National Review looks at two conservative healthcare reform proposals, including one by Sen. Orrin Hatch, that would “cover just as many people with insurance as Obamacare at a fraction of the cost.”
Reports James C. Capretta:
Supporters of the Obama administration like to create the impression that there is no viable alternative to the Affordable Care Act — i.e., Obamacare. But that is demonstrably not true. Republican senators Richard Burr, Tom Coburn, and Orrin Hatch introduced a plan earlier this year that would cover just as many people with insurance as Obamacare at a fraction of the cost.
Now we have confirmation, in the form of a new cost estimate, that a similarly constructed but slightly different proposal would also cost less, while covering nearly the same number of people.
