[heavyset_go]

If you look at the individual market for health insurance, premiums, deductibles and co-pays will exceed the total UBI benefit. Medicaid sets group rates that it will pay, so it is more efficient at reducing costs. I can't imagine that using UBI benefits to pay for health insurance on the individual market would be more effective than such a program.

[the_watcher]

I think the proposal is by far weakest in tying it at all to healthcare. Maybe UBI could be used to improve our health insurance headaches, but I was speaking specifically about things like unemployment benefits, CalFresh, etc. Things that are already just cash transfers but require an (arguably) bloated and too expensive bureaucracy to administer.