A Response to Jonathan Cohn: Healthy Choice

by Michael F. Cannon

Michael Cannon is director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute and co-author of Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It, to be released by Cato next month.

In last week's TRB, Jonathan Cohn takes aim at one of the most innovative health policy proposals in recent memory: the Health Care Choice Act, a bill sponsored by Representative John Shadegg of Arizona. Currently, if you buy health insurance you are allowed only to buy a policy licensed within the state where you live. Shadegg's bill would allow you to buy a policy from anywhere in the country.