Joe Klein, Time
There was a time, about thirty years ago, when I worked as a freelance writer. The work was plentiful, but the peripherals were lousy - especially when it came to health insurance. I had to buy it on my own and it was expensive. That’s one of the reasons I was so enthused when Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation developed his individual mandate plan for universal health insurance and it featured exchanges–that is, health insurance superstores–where freelancers, self-employed businesspeople and others without a health care plan could combine together and have...