Uninsurance in the 300-400 Percent of Federal Poverty Line Bracket

The crude and simple way to make health reform cheaper is to just make it less generous—fewer subsidies, for example. Congressional liberals are looking at subsidies for families of up to 400 percent of the federal poverty line. But how much would it undermine the project to be someone less ambitious. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation relatively few people in the 300-400 percent of FPL bracket currently lack insurance:

On the other hand, there’s a decent case to be made on the merits that subsidies are really in order all the way up to 500 percent of FPL. Which as I’ve said before really highlights that in an ideal world we’d just all pay taxes and all get health coverage in exchange for the taxes.