Let's be clear on one thing before we get started...the house bill on health care reform...it sucks. (Also the vague descriptions of health care that Obama is trying desperately to shove down Americans throats...that "plan" sucks as well.) Face it, any bill over 1,000 pages is likely to suck, and this one does, royally.
Let's fix health care....
Tort reform. Attorneys filing medical malpractice suits...loser pays. If the doc loses, he/she pays. If the filing attorney loses, he pays court and defense costs. Frivolous law suits just ended and billions of dollars of wasteful insurance premiums for malpractice insurance just cut costs of service. I told you this really isn't that hard of a problem.
Inter-state restrictions on buying health care insurance are gone. Anyone or any company can buy a coverage from any licensed firm. Competition just went up and prices just went down - for everyone.
A huge problem in the current system is a total disconnect between delivery of service and cost of service. A public option, by the way makes this problem worse. Increase the size, access, and tax benefits of personal savings accounts.
I am going to take some of the money I just saved and create a low income credit for those who cannot afford insurance to go buy the coverage that best meets their needs. Wait! I just saved more money here because these folks will no longer use the emergency room for primary care. BTW, illegals don't get the benefit. I can solve that problem now too while I have a minute. I am going to totally shut down the boarder and stop illegal crossings. However recognize that there are two ends to a funnel and that having to wait years for adjudication of a legal immigrant request is ridiculous. Therefore all applications for visas will be adjudicated with a yes/no decision within 120 days of the application. There, now those coming here are here legally and can participate in the wonders of a capitalist society. Illegals already here are sent home never to return if they commit a crime. Those here working and living in America can begin a process of becoming legal, but will have to pay a fine. Problem solved.
How many pages under 1,000 is this? We don't need some idiotic public insurance option, please, just use your head.
Just to close, Nancy Pelosi, who may be the stupidest member of Congress ever, and there is stiff competition for that distinction, said that they wanted to remove the insurance companies from the relationship between patients and doctors? Really? And replace them with what? The federal government? Unless we are going totally fee-for-service, then someone or some thing is going to be in between you and your doctor. Would you rather that "thing" be an insurance company or the federal government...which mental giants like Pelosi in positions of leadership.
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