McCain’s healthcare plan isn’t perfect, but it’s got a good solid design. We should look at the good parts and not find fault with the weaker parts. The democratic process of negotiating a final plan insures that the weak parts never make it to the final legislation anyway.

The best part of his plan is it creates a fundamental shift away from a healthcare plan that is subsidized by employers. It does this by providing a cash benefit of $5,000 annually for families to purchase health insurance or $2,500 for an single person to purchase healthcare insurance.

This means that people will no longer be tied to an employer for healthcare. Despite the improvements in portability, I know of someone at my company that cannot change change jobs, because they have a preconceived condition.

It also means that the vast majority of Americans will be able to get health insurance regardless of their job or the company they work for. Probably every person in the United States has a family member that doesn’t have healthcare. My self employed brother embodies the American entrepreneurial spirit and sadly he doesn’t have healthcare. McCain’s healthcare plan will change this inequity.

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