[TerriHaute]

With health-care reform either repealed or overturned, both Democrats and Republicans shy away from proposing any big changes to the health-care system for the next decade or so.

Good article. One of our Senators (R) discusses what he is doing, comments on current political events, takes questions from listeners about once a week on a local conservative talk-radio program. Recently he mentioned that Republicans from both houses of Congress have been drafting legislation that will be introduced after Obamacare is out of the way, either by SCOTUS or repeal. I am not sure why Dems and others seem to think there will be a big vacuum after Obamacare is gone. There will be legislation ready to go and some of the things it will contain are tort reform, allowing interstate purchase of insurance, uniform tax credits that are to be applied to insurance premiums, and enhanced health savings accounts. It probably won't get voted on until after the election when Reid can no longer table it, but it is in the works.

[Reddy]

“There will be legislation ready to go and some of the things it will contain are tort reform, allowing interstate purchase of insurance, uniform tax credits that are to be applied to insurance premiums, and enhanced health savings accounts.”

The Republicans should have done this YEARS ago, while they had the majority with Bush. Using these reforms and health savings accounts (where people realize that they are spending their own money thus are more careful instead of thinking that an insurance company or someone else is paying the bill), and also encouraging people to use urgent care/well care facilities instead of emergency rooms would make a HUGE impact on the money spent on health care.