What do you propose to make sure children get health care?
3 packs a day, that’s all he asks!
I would proposed a deregulated atmosphere in which medical providers would be forced to compete for families’ health care money, yielding cheaper and much-improved health care. The problem with our system, in part, is all the incentives to buy health insurance. When everything is ensured, the medical providers, always able to bill the deep pockets of insurance companies, have no incentive to provide superior health care at lower prices. The poor, who cannot afford health insurance, end up losing big-time. The predatory lawsuit industry and the current socialized areas of medicine (Medicare, Medicaid, S-CHIP) do not help any, either.
IIRC, health insurance in the country used to be simply for such things as major operations, similar to auto insurance covering only accidents and acts of god. Routine health care and minor incidents, similar to regular maintenance on an automobile, were paid for out of pocket.
Look at it this way: if you buy a box of band-aids in a store, you might pay a couple bucks or so. If you require a band-aid while staying at the hospital, you might pay much more for the one band-aid, when the factors of health insurance deep pockets, medical malpractice costs, default on medical bills by the uninsured, nurses union salaries, and whatever else are taken into account.
I don’t want children going without health care (and as far as I know, they usually don’t, either, since medical bills can be paid in installments). I suspect that such horrors as that poor kid who died from a tooth infection are a rarity. Health INSURANCE, on the other hand, can be quite expensive once you factor in all the Federal and State mandates that make it impossible to lower prices. Not to mention, there is a prohibition on purchasing insurance across state lines, so instead of having a national health insurance market, you have 50 statewide markets, lessening competition. Once again, the poor lose out.
These liberals who impose all these mandates and restrictions should take a long look in the mirror before accusing us of wanting to deny health care to children and young adults.
I propose married parents.
Is anyone in the US not getting health care?
“What do you propose to make sure children get health care?”
Responsible parenting.