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Pretty good article.

Been thinking today about what to do with the healthcare mess that exists in this country. Some thoughts:

1. Issue an obamacare waiver to all US citizens. Nobody has to pay a fine for not having health insurance.
2. Repeal HIPAA and the HiTech act. Easy and welcome way to demonstrate a commitment to reducing government regulations.
3. Establish a pilot program of say 1,000 employers where they will no longer be able to deduct health insurance premiums and their employees would buy health insurance directly from the insurance company. This test market would be as free of government intervention as possible. Provides a test environment for moving the entire private health insurance industry to individual policies as opposed to the current employer policies.

The idea is to return the power to the people and create a private marketplace free from government intervention. Get my government and my employer out of my health care.

This adds outrage to the already pathetic state of affairs. They can’t secure our passwords, or our personal machines in our homes and offices, but now they will insist on our biometric data and make it insecure as well.

A simple fact that remains is that it would be quite easy for MS to secure our machines. They choose not to.

Talk about somebody who needs to look in the mirror.

You call others a MORON while it is really you acting moronic.

Once again, you act as though you are an expert, but are clueless when it comes to impact assessment.

There is a high standard here at freerepublic for those that act as though they are experts. Your comments are way below that standard. You simply act knowledgeable and spew false notions as though they are fact.

“...In the end it will be mostly nothing...”

Dream on.

“...nobama has outsmarted himself and designed a behemoth that couldn’t be implemented in 15-20 years, let alone by next year.”

Huh? If you think government is going to wait 15 - 20 years to exercise the power over you that they’ve been given, you are sadly mistaken. Heck, major portions are already in place impacting millions of citizens.

It is hard to reconcile your statements with fact. I post this to urge you to research before you further misrepresent the truth.

“I would argue that what you experienced was not understood. You placed the blame in the wrong place. The reason for the ever increasing record keeping burden is not the use of digital records.

The reason for increase in written reports is to have evidence to produce in court when the lawsuit comes to trial.

Lawyers, blood sucking plaintiff lawyers, were to blame for your problems”

Incorrect.

The increase is due to the need to establish “meaningful use”.

Nobody says docs shouldn’t consider automating their records and do so it if it makes sense. What is ridiculous is for the government to pay them to do it in order to control the data.

“The VA does electronic records and the military does too now. I kinda like it. You can go to any VA and get immediate treatment and they have the history. I liked that the military had electronic because so many Sailors would lose their medical record and have to start all over again with SHOTS...very costly for the government on their irresponsibility. This is actually an incredibly great idea that the government came up with. I know we all hate government but some ideas are just good and this is one of them.”

Huh?

You really should rethink this one. It’s not an idea, it’s a mammoth, non-free enterprise, goverment created bubble that takes power away from private citizens.

Not sure how anyone can pin this on Obama, the HiTech Act happened under Bush and I believe, Clinton before him. It was simply signed by Obama.

It’s another ridiculous bubble building government program. There are more companies selling EHR applications now than there has ever been for any other application in the history of man, 400+ or so. Can you imagine 400 different web browsers, word processors, etc?

It’s a $20 billion spend in a healthcare system that costs are already out of control. Why? To gain control of the citizens health data and give government power over doctors and their patients. Meanwhile, CMS doesn’t have enough money to pay docs for care.

BTW, the Feds are also spending great deals of money on incentivizing “electronic prescriptions” and “quality reporting” at the same time they are dropping reimbursement for actual medical care. So, hundreds of billions of dollars are wasted and new government entities are empowered at the same time the government is broke and doesn’t have enough money to pay docs for medical care.

This fails the common sense test as does most government ideas. Anybody that thinks this is a good idea is either in the business, or not a conservative.

“Yeah I can size up these situations pretty quick, it’s true”

If that is the case, then you should have already sized up that you look like a complete know-it-all, nagging wench on this thread.

What a bullshit thread.

Remember when that right wing activist bombed an abortion clinic? Well, I should have posted “stop albie before he bombs a clinic and kills folks”.

To all of you tough guy antagonists that stand behind your keyboards and tell Sarah to go away: take your own advice. She is the one person that shares our common sense perspective and has a stage to promote it.

There is no advantage to slamming the one person who speaks up for your own beliefs.

Jim,

If more people made a bed and slept in it like you have, the world would be a better place.

Well done!

Never seen Chelsea look more like somebody elses kid than she does in that pic with Bill.

Free Republic is an American original.

Simply brilliant.

“Has the Two-Party System Failed?”

Yes,if you are We The People.
No, if you are a politician.

Expect the failure to continue.

“Ok, so what are you going to do about it? If you have a productive answer, I’m all ears.”

Frankly, I don’t think there’s a damn thing I can do about it. Romney against Obama has been forced upon us. In todays world, a citizens vote is meaningless. Lobbyists, loyalties and PACs are meaningful.

We had high hopes for the TEA party movement. But, it has been marginalized between 2010 and now. This marginalization of the principles behind the TEA party is embodied by the forced nomination of Mitt Romney. By the establishments choice, they have destroyed the long-standing conservative alliance to republicans.

Bla, bla, bla....

“People in politics” have the goal to win elections, but it not for the reason that “the people” want to win elections. We want our great country back, they want to retain power and build empires. Romney is a loser that is trying to buy his reputation back. He promises other politicians things to get their support. As long as they scratch each others backs, they don’t give a crap about we the people.

We the people understand fine. It’s them vs. us. They are winning.

“Recruit Romney” LMAO.

Honestly, that is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen posted here. Romney has enough alliances already, that’s half his problem. Add the FR conservatives to the list of special interests he has to please. I’m sure you’ll love the compromises he proposes.

Your misguided attempts to make the best of a bad situation will fail to solve the problem. The truth is so obvious it slaps most of us across the face. We need an outsider to radically transform government and politics. Our elites have dug in so deep that it may be impossible. If you somehow think Romney will give anything more than pacifying lip service to fixing our country, you’ve been brainwashed. They have the power and they will do anything to keep it.

You go ahead and reward Romney for being a big money establishment pick that could care less about the people of the USA.

He is a failed politician that has spent a fortune to try and save his legacy. We the people of the USA are the least of his concerns.

Duck Frudge.

Stupid is giving up your objectivity in your lust to bolster your candidate. Santorum is an inside the beltway establishment type that can’t win a simple Senate reelection. This article gave me new information about him. Yet, you want cover up this information to try and make him look better than he is.

Snarky, know-it-all activists like yourself always resort to personal insults in an effort to shame folks into silence. Do you even know how stupid you sound?

Naw, didn’t think so.