Here is my idea: KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF HEALTH CARE. End Medicaid, phase out Medicare and end all talk of Obamacare. Let people take care of themselves. That is what freedom is all about. You take your chances, rise or fall on your own merits and live with the consequences.
Too late they have been in it for years! The plan must be to get the federal government out of anything not enumerated in the constitution including: health care, health insurance, home mortgages, education, toilet capacity, the efficiency of light bulbs, food stamps, mandatory seat belts, Social security, required gas mileage of new vehicles, minimum wage, union-labor laws, child labor laws, OSHA, EPA,FDA, wetlands protection, paying landowners not to produce, farm subsidies, price supports, firearms restrictions, national endowment for commercially un-viable art, IRS police powers, ...
But if they want to protect our borders I suggest build the fence!
I have no intention of paying for people who wait around until they get sick to bog down my insurance company with kidney transplants. . Shut down all our foreign military occupation. Put those troops on the border then take the $300 billion a year savings and pay $200 billion on the national debt. Then take the $100 billion and build Public Assistance hospitals and staff them with salaried Doctors and bulk purchases on medical supplies like the VA!!! That is it!!. If you want free — go there . If you want good, work hard — make money and go get a $1 million dollar a year Doctor. PROBLEM SOLVED!!! Then do “star wars” and nuke anyone that threatens our borders in hostility. Its over.Move on.
Or die with them?
In principle I agree with you. From a pragmatic viewpoint, the problem is not that simple. While millionaires don't depend on these government programs, and many in the upper middle class could tighten their belts to handle the costs, that leaves the rest of Americans in a tough spot. The poor would be up a creek without a paddle. Same for the hard-working but unlucky ones who lose their jobs.
I prefer to have the governments tax us strictly for what's absolutely necessary to take care of their legitimate responsibilities. The bulk of peoples' earnings should stay with them. I would rather keep, and control, our money and take care of our own future. Frankly I don't know if we could handle all the huge medical bills that can hit anyone at any time.
Year’s ago I lived in NY and was an independent businessman. Although healthy, my girlfriend at that time (Now Mrs. Lowbuck), urged me to take out a medical plan.
Now this was during the AIDS crisis and the NY assembly/senate had just passed a bill that required that insurance companies to take on anyone regardless of condition (mainly a PC reaction to AIDS).
Of course, the few remaining companies (most fled the state) offered me a modest plan with a Rolls-Royce price tag.
Needless to say it was not long before I was working in another state and there able to buy an affordable health plan to keep the future hubby happy.