Rudy Giuliani on Health Care

Giuliani said the government needs to "find ways" to expand access to health insurance. He argues the solutions to our health care crisis, "have to be free market solutions. They have to be a competitive system." He has criticized Democratic proposals for universal health care that he said would threaten a "socialization" of the American medical system. He also said their plans would increase the cost of health care by putting it more in the hands of bureaucrats. He supports a combination of tax credits and vouchers for the poor to expand private health insurance.


Tax Credit

Giuliani proposed a fixed tax credit (in excess of 15,000 USD) to families to help them to afford personally financed health care. Giuliani sees this as the solution to the main problem, the current firm-purchased system. His proposal targets those with employer-based insurance and those who pay taxes. The plan is reportedly similar to a 2006 plan presented by President Bush of which analysts thought that the youngest and healthiest employees would go into the private sector, but older and sicker ones would remain on employee insurance.

Vouchers

In April 2007 Giuliani suggested we should provide more health care coverage to the poor and to way to do it is through vouchers.

Giuliani on market based health care reform