Health Care Reform

A thought on health care from David Bernstein:
Serious Health Care Reform Proposal: Let the Democrats put forward three different health care reform proposals. Let the Republicans put forward two different proposals. Find five states to volunteer. Each state adopts one of the proposals. Wait several years. See if any of these proposals worked out well, and if so, which one seems best, and why. Learn from this trial and error, and then pass a national health bill, instead of trying an untested, one-size fits all solution for 20% of the American economy.

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_07_19-2009_07_25.shtml#1248062921

Seems reasonable to me. We have gone 40+ years with millions of uninsured. And people don't agree on the current science. So have large scale testing. And bring health care now to millions.

UPDATE: I posted the above comment on SodaHead and got the response:
"Here's an idea:Let every single industrialized nation in the world except America require universal coverage.Wait several years.Find out which one works best and modify it for America.oops! We've already done that! "

Of course, we have not done that and there is considerably difference in what universal health care means. China has universal health care and families tend to allow parents to die rather than pay the costs of "universal health care". The Dutch system is basically a law that tells everyone that they must buy medical insurance through whatever private company they want. Sounds like a plan. If you want universal health care mandate that everyone buy a COBRA plan or something else like it. Wait, we already have that, don't we?