Another Shot for Health Care

The article "Another Model for Health Care Reform" by Hutchison from Austin American Statesman is an argument about the role the government is taking to provide a health care plan. Hutchison also talks about how the Obama administration is pushing a massive government health care plan for everyone. This rules out people making their own decisons on what time of health care they want. She also states that the government's plan for health care will limit a person's opitions on insurance. The article also states that Texas is leading the nation in uninsured people which leads to higher premiums and property taxes for those who are covered. Hutchison wants to take a stance on health care issues but doesn't want the Obama administration to follow up on their health care plan. Her audience is the people of Texas mostly people with no health care right now and also the government of Texas to change the health care policy. Hutchison's solution to this is use health exchange. Health exchange has many advantages as she points out. One is that it is elective so you can choose to do it or not. Another is that you can choose a plan that best meets your needs and in your price range. It is also profitable for employers. The approach would cut administrative costs and labor for companies. In the article it also says that according to the Heritage Foundation, "State-level health insurance exchanges would increase health insurance coverage, significantly lower prices in the individual coverage market." Utah as implanted this plan and it has worked out really good for them so far. Hutchison suggest that the national government also Texas should follow this plan of health care. This will help keep the decison making in the hands of consumers not the government. I agree with Hutchison that we should have a different apporch towards health care and all her claims in the article are reasonable and make sense. She also found evdince from Heritage Foundation which shows us she read about the health exchange and knows much about it. I agree with the author since health care is such a big deal in todays world and many people suffer without health care. This will help everyone get health care even people who go job to job or only have part time jobs.