Why an alternative?
It was working fine before Obamacare.
Where’s the $2,500 savings per family when rates are going to rise 20%? That’s Sticker shock even for hard core liberal tail wagging lackey supporters.
It was working, except for people with preexisting conditions. The Republicans will have to address that issue.
I feel that health insurance covers too much.We need insurance reform.Insurance should cover serious disease, trauma,chronic conditions like diabetes, and surgical procedures.Make a list of conditions that insurance must cover.
Insurance should not have to cover acne, birth control,well physicals, hay fever, headaches,endless physical therapy, etc. People should pay out of pocket for that. I think that will drive down the cost.
Once insurance is reformed, then anyone who refuses to pay should also be refused service at all medical facilities. No freeloaders on the system.
Certain important aspects of this turkey of a law are never going away.
- We’ve permanently expanded the Medicaid rolls (unless you think the GOP actually has the stones to withstand the media onslaught from trying to pare them back)
- Junior is going to continue getting coverage till age 26 (unless you think they have the stones to repeal that as well)
- Mandated coverage of pre-existing conditions not going anyplace.
- I doubt they’ll even be able to claw back the free birth control from the Sandra Fluke crowd.
It was not, if it had been they never could have foisted Obozocare upon the country.
Healthcare, (note I do not say "health insurance" because it is not "health insurance," rather it is a pre-paid health plan that includes many extra charges not applicable to one's health care) needs to be exposed to free market competition. The problem is that *NONE* of the pigs feeding at the health care trough (pols, doctors, nurses, insurance companies, SEIU et al) want that and it will ultimately have to be forced upon them.
A good first start would be to open health insurance to interstate competition. I live in CA and buy my car insurance in TX (USAA). But my masters in Sacramento do not allow me to purchase health insurance outside of California lest I obtain a policy that does not contain coverage for treatments I would never need but need to pay for so others can be receive them.
A good second start would be to allow the sale of high deductible policies that cover catastrophic medical issues only. That is what insurance is supposed to be after all. But then my costs would reflect *MY* risk and not the risks of the uninsured and illegals receiving free treatments which is exactly why my masters in Sacramento prohibit it.