Let hospitals and insurance companies compete. Stop forcing them to cover everything. A single man doesn’t need cervical cancer coverage etc etc. The mandates have raised the price of insurance mightily. Allow Medical Savings Accounts.
Let a hospital offer their own ‘insurance’ where you get covered for paying a monthly membership fee.
Let doctors charge flat monthly fees for service.
Let them all compete.
BRD care
I now want health coverage that will only offer major medical. For everything else, I’ll pay myself. $120-$150 for a 1 time/year visit with an ob/gyn? No problem. $500 for blood work? OK. $220 for an appt. w/an endocrinologist? Fine. An MRI, an X-ray, a CT Scan, all those other things included, what would it come to - $5,000/year? Like the L’Oreal women say, “I’m worth it.”
Women typically spend about $20/week on their hair without including shampoo, conditioner, styling products. Add in $10/week on other things (manicures, pedicures, waxing, threading, teeth whitening, cosmetics, etc.) and $5 for coffee. These are minimums. To me, these are absurdities. I would have no problem paying these sums, I despise spending the time associated with them doing these stupidities. 3-4 hours every 6 weeks at the hair salon for $120 worth of highlights? No, thanks. But if you offered these same women a gym membership at $35/month, I doubt those of the Dumb persuasion would take it. $100/month for major medical coverage? I bet there would be few takers.
I like the monthly membership fee. Or, give me a program that puts me in a group with people of my age, gender, wt./ht. ratio bracket. Don’t use me to cover the morbidly obese, the high risk pregnancy types, etc.. Better yet, let me pay for myself, you pay for yourself.
“Let hospitals and insurance companies compete. Stop forcing them to cover everything. A single man doesn’t need cervical cancer coverage etc etc. The mandates have raised the price of insurance mightily. Allow Medical Savings Accounts.
Let a hospital offer their own ‘insurance’ where you get covered for paying a monthly membership fee.
Let doctors charge flat monthly fees for service.
Let them all compete.” - GeronL
“You can’t begin to fix the health-care system in this country until you address the unabated illegal immigration.” - OldDeckHand
Most people on this forum know that it’s not the government’s business to regulate this, but rather than saying that Obama and the Democrats’ solutions are wrong, conservatives need to offer answers. If this means explaining why there is nothing wrong, fine. If this means explaining why the government is ruining the healthcare system, and just needs to back off, that’s fine, but the GOP needs to be the party of answers!
That’s the kind of conservative message the GOP needs to spread!