Edwardscare: A Trojan HorseThe health-care primary, Part 2.

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To make sure everyone is enrolled, insurance would be checked at schools, hospitals, clinics, doctor's offices, and through the tax system. If necessary, premiums would be collected through the tax system and everyone would be enrolled in a default plan.

I presume the default plan would be the public one, since it would be awkward to require the Internal Revenue Service to make payments to private insurance companies.]

Health Care Primary Archive:
July 1, 2007: "Health Costs Screw Business, Too"
June 19, 2007: "Obamacare: Better Than It Looks"
March 13, 2007: "A Short History of Health Care"
November 8, 2006: "Time To Socialize Medicine"
March 9, 2005: "Socialized Medicine, Part 2"
March 8, 2005: "The Triumph of Socialized Medicine"

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Timothy Noah is a senior writer at Slate.

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