Andrew Yang's new health-care plan is generally light on detail and high on technobabble
Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images Andrew Yang is not going to be president. The entrepreneur posts a steady 4 percent in polls of primary voters, which is enough to get him and his math pin on the debate stage, but is not enough to win him the Democratic nomination, let alone the White House. Nevertheless, he persists, and continues to roll out policy proposals. Each in their turn provides fresh affirmation that he is not suitable for high office.
But in other areas, Yang goes off the rails. “Can innovation help reduce health care costs?” he asks, and then answers his own question with a few bullet points about telehealth. He will “encourage the use of telehealth in rural areas and for mental health services.” How? Ask God. Only He knows, because Yang does not explain himself. Yang’s additional ideas are similarly vague. He’ll invest in broadband, he says.
Meanwhile he has little to say about about health insurance. He says that it is “urgent to integrate mental health care into health insurance plans,” and that he’ll make insurance companies cover the cost of public transport to health care for people with disabilities. Both are fine ideas, but they’re patchwork solutions to much broader problems. He’ll “fully cover all maternal costs,” but doesn’t say how.
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