[cuban leaf]

I admire Ted Cruz and I don’t even 100% support him on this, because we need to construct our own opposing plan before we really have an opposition.

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Why do we need a plan? If we just got the government out of it a lot of the problems would go away. I think the best law the government could pass on this would be as follows:

It is illegal to attach your health care insurance to your occupational compensation. Everybody would have to buy it like most people buy car insurance.

When the person paying for a product is also the person using it, the price is automatically kept in check in a “supply and demand” sort of way.

Tort reform wouldn’t hurt either.

[vmivol00]

Getting the govt out of the middle of all healthcare would force a new fiscal reality on the industry. Suddenly prices would drop and service would increase...because the market would demand it. Right now there is zero incentive for cost control or improved service.

[DoodleDawg]

It is illegal to attach your health care insurance to your occupational compensation. Everybody would have to buy it like most people buy car insurance.

That's a foolish idea. My company covers something like 75% of my healthcare costs. Detach it from my compensation and suddenly my monthly bill balloons to upwards of $1500. Nobody would by it because nobody could afford it.