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How I would reform Health Care

1. Repeal Everything about Obama Care

2. Let people buy Health insurance across state lines ( Why the hell no one ever brings up Wickard V. Filburn concerning this confuses me )

3. For every person here ILLEGALLY who receives healthcare from any hospital the hospital will get re-reimbursed via the following.
1. The payment to the hospital will be deducted from any foreign aid we currently send to that country., PLUS 50% additional gets deducted from the foreign aid as well.
2. once that money runs out we start placing a 1% Tariff on all items coming from that country to pay said bill.
3. If that is not enough money to pay the hospital we start yanking their money from the IMF.

4. For every person here LEGALLY who is not yet a citizen of here on VISA we do the same thing as in step 3 if they don’t have insurance or refuse to pay their bill.

5. We let the Hospitals take up to 100% tax deduction for expenses incurred for providing charitable care to LEGAL citizens who cannot afford Health Care Insurance, once the Hospital Exhausts it’s Deduction, it can flow downwards to the entire medical staff so that Doctors and nurses can benefit for hiospitals providing charity care.

6. We let Insurance Companies Charge up to 2-3X as much for “Avoidable Pre-existing conditions” Like Obesity, Smoking, etc.... and only charge at 1.5X maximum for people with Genetic Pre-existing conditions.

7. We allow people to directly deduct the entire expense of 2 routine checkups per year up to 200 bucks per check up on their taxes provided they pay for the checkup completely out of pocket without using insurance, For their Dependents under the age of 18 you can deduct up to 150 per checkup 2X a year per child with the same conditions.

8. We allow Health insurance policies that only cover catastrophic injury / events, that don;t cover playign for checkups and routine inexpensive procedures. ( we don’t change oil changes to car insurance you know, why not follow the same reasoning )

9. We let the veterans of this wonderful country go to any hospital they wish if they are not getting adequate care from the VA and the bill gets sent to local VA hospital administrators which gets deducted from their paycheck until conditions improve.

10. We make it MANDATORY that Congress Critters ONLY get Health Care via the VA, if they wish to get care from a regular hospital they have to PAY 3X the normal rate. ( A veteran who is currently in congress is exempted of course )

I think bringing back Charity Care in Hospitals and encourage it while punishing countries that let their illegals here leech off of the Health Care system.

No. You require a bureau or agency to administer these things. The intelligent portions will be overwhelmed by in a few short years by inevitably expanded controls and requirements on everything else. Just repeal obamacare then pass a new law that simply makes all federal interference in Medicine and Insurance illegal. One intervention might be indicated and that is either a law under the Regulating Interstate Commerce requirement of the Constitution to eliminate state line barriers for insurance. With no government controls beyond the Constitutional- interstate commerce and truth in labeling as in the weights and measures clause Medicine will rapidly become "affordable" to anyone with a family income and charity will take up the rest as it traditionally did and still does. It is also possible to sanction other countries that evade or ignore American patents on new medicine. That would lower the prices of new medicines because the world would pay the developers back for the R&D that currently only Americans pay for and new drugs, which would still cost more, would be much less expensive in the patent period.

Your suggestions for providing for and recouping costs for aliens is good. I would add to that, in the interest of reducing illegal access to America that childbirth to an illegal alien is still permitted but that the parents be given the choice of taking the child back to the home country along with deportation of the parents or giving the child up for anonymous adoption. The answer really is to eliminate "birthright" citizenship but that is a bit of a different subject.