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According to the Valley News (sorry, no direct link), Judd Gregg has little interest in the health care summit unless the current bills are scrapped and they start from scratch.
< snark > Because, you know, that's really an argument in good faith on his part. < /snark >
But what's Senator Gregg's idea for health care reform?
Gregg also supports a mandate that adults over the age 18 buy insurance, and said he favors allowing Americans to buy insurance across state lines.
"You can't get insurance market reform unless everybody has to get in the water," Gregg said. "You basically have to have a barebones national insurance policy - I describe it as catastrophic (coverage) with health and prevention."
Because such plans would have less mandated coverage for various maladies, Gregg said premiums would be less expensive, easing the need for major subsidies for many lower-income Americans.
That's right. Judd Gregg thinks we should continue to force people by law into purchasing insurance, and without a public option or Medicare buy-in - AND take away the subsidies so the poor (and let's face it, much of the middle-class as well who don't have employer-based coverage) are forced into a junk insurance policy.
And this is only after being forced to come up with something after eight years of ignoring the problem under his good friend and debating partner George W. Bush.
