Ezra Klein, once more showing that he writes better than I ever will. comments on McCain’s healthcare proposal

It’s another of these plans to sprinkle magical tax credits all across the land that will incentivize folks to buy less health insurance, but do absolutely nothing for the cost of care. Families get a $5,000 tax credit to help them buy insurance, and they can keep what they don’t use, and so the hope is, they’ll buy plans with higher deductibles, be unable to afford the deductibles, and will thus buy less care. It’s like if I tried to make food cheaper by encouraging you to diet.

I love that line on dieting, and it cuts every Republican healthcare plan to the quick.