Posted on 12/29/2016 12:17:27 PM PST by Jim W N
WITH THE OBAMACARE exchanges collapsing and millions of people being battered by ghastly increases in health insurance premiums, what's to be done?
Forgetting that socialism doesn't work--never mind that it's deeply immoral--Democrats are addicted to the idea of government-dominated health care. They see ObamaCare's terminal crisis as the perfect opportunity to realize their age-old ambition of socialized medicine, hence the current mouthing of such slogans as "a single-payer system," "Medicare for all" and the offer to consumers of "a public option," i.e., subsidized policies from a health insurance company run by Uncle Sam.
Republicans should be ready with proposals that will help health care ultimately become a normal market, where patients are in charge, not such third-party payers as health insurers, Medicare and Medicaid. Currently, the patient isn't the "customer," which is why so many thousands of them die unnecessarily from infections received at hospitals or from medical errors. The current system works to make the patient as passive as possible. A consumer revolution won't be achieved overnight, but several ideas will help.
-- Nationwide shopping for health insurance. -- Transparency for prices. -- Transparency of performance. -- Equalized tax treatment. -- Freedom of choice. -- No more buy-this-or-else mandates.
These measures would be immensely effective and popular. They would go a long way toward giving the American health care market the attributes we take for granted in others: cost-reducing productivity and innovation, accountability and genuine choices, instead of the one-size-fits-all structure we're being squeezed into today, which will lead to more and more deadly rationing.
Other changes are needed, but we'll never get the free-market, pro-patient ball rolling if reformers try to do everything at once.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
The measures discussed in the Forbes article (detail in link below) "would be immensely effective and popular. They would go a long way toward giving the American health care market the attributes we take for granted in others: cost-reducing productivity and innovation, accountability and genuine choices, instead of the one-size-fits-all structure we're being squeezed into today, which will lead to more and more deadly rationing.
"Other changes are needed, but we'll never get the free-market, pro-patient ball rolling if reformers try to do everything at once."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2016/11/02/with-obamacare-collapsing-what-do-we-do-next/#1bfac7477b69
What Do We Do Next?
Free
Market
Put everyone associated with it’s implementation in prison for the rest of their treasonous lives, then carry out the ideas in post #1.
See if your vet is taking new patients?
Toss it and its’ namesake into the ash heap of history.
Looks like Trump got elected, so THE LEFT WILL BLAME THE COLLAPSE ON HIM.
A couple of hours ago, I just told BCBS that I wasn’t renewing my policy for 2017. Their ‘bronze’ plan is unaffordable, doesn’t cover much of anything and has a deductible of $14k....................
They can ‘blame’ all they like, but people all over the country damn well know better....................
What Do We Do Next?
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What’s this “we” sh*t Lone Ranger?
I remember some of us getting together and shooting rats at the dump.
“WITH THE OBAMACARE exchanges collapsing and millions of people being battered by ghastly increases in health insurance premiums, what’s to be done?”
Follow the money and bring everyone who participated in this fraud up on charges and convict them to the fullest extent of the law.
Those seem like good recommendations. Also need to remove all barriers to competition by insurance companies. Let the market decide. Put caps on liability for healthcare providers so docs aren’t spending money on unnecessary tests just to cover their butts, and to limit the liability due to malpractice or other factors. Nobody can put a value on a human life and all loss of life is unfortunate, but money is not the solution. Neither is allowing laywers to gorge themselves at an unlimited trough of money. Just put a limit on it and that’s it.
A doctor friend also said they need more flexibility to intervene earlier to avoid catastrophic health issues and associated costs. His example was a kid who is say 200 pounds in the 6th grade due to poor diet and parenting. If that kid continues on the path he/she has about 99% probability for diabetes, coronary problems, and all the mobility problems that come with morbid obesity, all of which will entail hundreds of thousands - even millions of dollars for treatment. Early intervention would be effective in many cases and he claims that now that smoking has been reversed, there is no other single factor that could have an imeediate and direct impact on lowering healthcare costs.
It was 100 a month to cover me and my husband. We could put 6,500 a year in the HSA to cover deductibles and co-pays.
We rarely used it up to the deductible limit and so the money in the HSA built up.
Remember in the 1960’s when even pregnancy was not covered because it was voluntary?
Step one: Stop covering voluntary medical treatments.
Well, I do agree this election symbolizes an awakening. And if it weren’t for a large percentage of females FINALLY WAKING UP TO THE DEMOCRATS TACTICS OF PREYING UPON THE STUPID, Trump would not have been elected. I do think God had a hand in this. He hasn’t given up on the country HE created.
Yes, what is next? We lost our coverage last spring and nothing now to restart it. Because of income, Obamacare options are prohibitively expensive, plus the deductibles are ridiculous. No meaningful commercial options thanks to Obamacare. We’re self pay, which is find for simple things, but catastrophic is beyond us. If we were only illegal aliens...
Gosh, who possibly has any possible ideas? Who? Like...
Tort reform.
Fraud busting.
Pharma price busting.
FDA streamlining.
Competition, open pricing.
Catastrophic coverage options.
Insurance forms streamlining.
Health Savings Accounts.
Wellness care, holistics.
Alternative treatments and methods.
Wait, wait, I remembered all these from the early 1990’s, from Republicans...
what’s to be done?
Apply for medicaid...as MILLIONS already did thru Obamacare
I reject the premise that all Americans must have routine healthcare insurance, which is how the debate is being framed, at the price of higher taxes for those of us who do. Life is a series of choices and if you choose responsibly you will likely obtain reasonably priced health insurance. But if you are irresponsible in life you probably won’t. One more instance where Liberals take from the responsible citizens and give to the irresponsible ones to even up outcomes.
Sick and evil, YES. 0dunga's ultimate goal was to SHUT AMERICA DOWN FOR HIS DREAM OF A MARXIST UTOPIA RESET. Almost got there, didn't he.
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