President Barack Obama referenced Sen. Richard Burr’s health plan about 10 minutes into his speech tonight, though without mentioning it by name.
After talking of how some on the left are pushing for a single-payer system, Obama said: “On the right, there are those who argue that we should end the employer-based system and leave individuals to buy health insurance on their own.”
Burr, a Winston-Salem Republican who has a bill with Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, has suggested offering such tax credits to families, reports Barb Barrett.
Those tax credits would allow families to buy their own health insurance on the open market, which Burr says protects the free market and gives families more choice. Many observers say it could, however, effectively end the employer-based health insurance system.
Obama followed that reference, though, by saying that either the single-payer system or a new system based on tax credits “would represent a radical shift that would disrupt the health care most people currently have.”
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