As part of their Health Care Watch series, The New York Times Campaign Stops blog invited Heritage vice president for domestic policy Stuart Butler to analyze the presidential candidates health care plans. Butler writes: Barack Obama’s approach might be called “expand and economize.” Essentially he would add commitments and centralize, and then try to offset costs with new revenue and efficiency improvements. He would widen coverage by launching new programs and expansions of existing ones, plus requirements on many businesses to increase worker coverage or pay a tax. He seeks …
