Posted on 11/29/2016 11:43:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
BE BOLD
Another similar opportunity for reform and conservative change won’t come around for another generation, at least. Do. Not. Waste. It!
And what you implement will have very lasting and far-reaching effects on everyone, and the continued growth of the leftist nanny-state, for a couple generations.
Repeal, do not replace
Socialized medicine regardless of the “care” (Hillarycare, Romneycare, Obamacare or Trumpcare) is consolidation of power in the hands of the government.
Just repeal it and replace with... freedom. That’s the constitutional option.
Unfortunately and because of the tremendous amount of slither contained within, Obamacare will take years to unwind. There must be an eased transition to the open and free market.
Amen. The plan that Dr. Price is advocating would likely be just as expensive to fund as Obamacare and has no guarantees that it will reduce healthcare premiums to the point where people can afford them, tax credit or no.
Why? Sometimes cold turkey is the only solution however harsh it may be. Healthcare is not open and free, never has been. Nothing government can do will change that. Government can only make it worse.
Offering tax credits?
Tax credits are part of the problem in every sector. They need to be eliminated.
I like this part. Make sure your plan does this. Return control to the free market where it belongs and get government out of the insurance business.
That MUST happen before any additional, revised, reformed or extended health care programs of any description are written into law or EVEN considered!
No more throwing money at problems which Democrats insisted were needed and have been put in place at MY expense for so long. PERIOD
Well it is, but in the real world we know that ain’t gonna happen. But as one healthcare executive told me, there are all kinds of things that could actually reduce the cost of healthcare, so let’s do them first. Like opening up markets, cutting waste and abuse, and putting limits on malpractice so doctors don’t end up spending money just to cover their butts.
And if we’ve got to have government involvement in healthcare and education, how about the kind we used to have in schools that required kids to do PE and didn’t serve them subsidized slop to eat out of some guilt trip of the Presidents wife? If a kid is on the path to being obese and high risk for diabetes and heart disease at age 10, it’s going to be a lot cheaper and better for the kid if they deal with it then than to let the kid become a 300+ pound adult with two stents and taking a cocktail of pills every day.
Gotta start by repealing Obamacare. I just hope they’ve got some really wise people around the table when it comes to the “replace” part and not just lawyers and bureaucrats. At least with Trump I’m pretty sure they won’t be a bunch of crony lobbyists and pharma execs.
It’s not one of the enumerated powers for the central government. I believe the constitution reserves things like education, housing, healthcare, etc, to the states and the people.
Agree with it or not, tax credits is not Trumpcare.
It’s a private solution to the problem, with tax credits.
People will be able to make their own choices from a variety of plans. There will be competition. That will drive costs down.
The only problem with this plan, is that every Democrat in the nation will have a vested interest in seeing it fail. Liberal states like mine will probably abuse the system in all manner of ways.
I hope there is something Trump can do about that.
A profoundly freedom based approach runs afoul of a compelling obstacle — the horrendously low labor participation rate.
Automation has destroyed a lot of jobs and you can’t retrain a 50 yr old toll collector to be a software engineer, and even if you could, that person faces 4 yrs of healthcare needs — at age 50 when they will need it.
Best to get rid of Obamacare and proceed as the article discusses . . . some sort of tax incentive way to match the subsidized prices on Obamacare premiums as they are now. If you repeal and step away, that labor participation disaster we face would have more people with no insurance (and thus no healthcare) than there ever was before.
After some years to fix the LPR, maybe you can scale back any Trumpcare help.
Get the government out.
MSAs for everyone, that work like IRAs.
Insurance across state lines.
Vouchers.
“Just repeal it and replace with... freedom. Thats the constitutional option.”
Yes, that would be Constitutional.
The Democrats would then win the next Presidential election and grab control of Congress and you can kiss all your guns and most of your incomes goodbye.
Governments can’t make a mess of healthcare over 100-years and then leave people to die from the consequences of government meddling.
Obama gets to make a mess and bow out, but government as a whole doesn’t.
Laws based on making a market system that works well for nearly all while protecting all sick people are needed.
Yes, and I also want the Shit-Gold-Nuggets option on my market system, 'kay?
I think the Price proposal is the best that is ready to go.
Obamacareless needs to go (as much as contract law allows).
We need to steer the medical industry to be more cost-efficient and lower-priced and place the clear majority of it into a true market system within about eight years at most.
Anyone who has a “vision” of how Healthcare should be delivered will only exacerbate the problem of cost and accessability. The ony\ly reasonable soluution is for all laws regardiong medicine and Insurance to be repeales andnot replaced. Turn it entirely over to the Market. Costs will plummet. Access will expand. Quality will soar. The same goes for Public Education. The fedgov needs to separate itself entirely from the field. In all these things the FedGov has no valid role beyond the Constitutional mandate to guarantee weights and measures. Let the states interfere how they will. The best system,will become obvious as certain states let the market work and others chase out all the talent and many prospective patients by massive control.
It's a government subsidy to buy private healthcare. So was Obamacare.
People will be able to make their own choices from a variety of plans. There will be competition. That will drive costs down.
And how will the government guarantee that?
The only problem with this plan, is that every Democrat in the nation will have a vested interest in seeing it fail. Liberal states like mine will probably abuse the system in all manner of ways.
Failure is pretty much built into this plan, as it was with Obamacare, and as it will be for any government run solution to healthcare.
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