Yostivanich

So what’s the answer? Amer­i­cans over­whelm­ingly favor guar­an­tee­ing cov­er­age to those with pre-existing con­di­tions — but you can’t do that with­out pur­su­ing broad-based reform. To make insur­ance afford­able, you have to keep cur­rently healthy peo­ple in the risk pool, which means requir­ing that every­one or almost every­one buy cov­er­age. You can’t do that with­out finan­cial aid to lower-income Amer­i­cans so that they can pay the pre­mi­ums. So you end up with a tri­par­tite pol­icy: elim­i­na­tion of med­ical dis­crim­i­na­tion, man­dated cov­er­age, and pre­mium subsidies.

via Op-Ed Colum­nist — Clos­ing Argu­ments on Health Care — NYTimes.com. Krug­man mak­ing his “final” argu­ments for a national health care plan.