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Governor Strickland’s Health Care Reform Initiative has finally released its recommendations. As I anticipated, they are pretty bad. In short, if these recommendations are adopted you will be paying more for health insurance and more in taxes. So hold onto your wallet. It’s not like you can opt out of taxes and, if this commission gets its way, you can’t opt out of health insurance, either — the government will force you to buy it.

Instead of looking for ways to make health insurance more affordable, the report says that policymakers should add even more regulations on insurance, driving up its costs. But to help people afford insurance, you need to pay more taxes to give them a subsidy. Oh, and Medicaid needs to be bigger.

The recommendations resemble the health care plan that’s being rolled out in Massachusetts. As the Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner points out here, that plan isn’t really working out all that well for either the uninsured or taxpayers in Massachusetts. Hopefully something similar isn’t headed to Ohio.

Tags: Health care

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