Posted on 07/18/2017 12:32:14 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Congress just proved something that we all suspected: They are the wrong tool for fixing health care. The topic is too complicated, the politics are too corrosive, and the money interests are too strong. That’s why citizens will step in and fill the gap with their own proposals. I expect to see a number of citizen-created health care proposals emerge soon. To that end, I thought I would get the ball rolling by framing the problem in this short 4-minute video. This is how any large business would approach the problem of spiraling healthcare costs. Here is the graphic from the video clip:
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.dilbert.com ...
Republican Party = the gang that couldn’t shoot straight
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I guess your prediction, about Scott....from last night, came true!
And wants attention.
it’s hard to be humble...
Put all the Republicans in a room. Don’t give them any food or water until they all sign off on a straight repeal.
Primary their a$$es out. If the American people want health care as a right, they can ask for a constitutional amendment.
Combine high deductible insurance with Health Savings Accounts and let the market work.
Great cartoonist, but completely clueless here.
The government doesn’t need to get involved in ranking startups. We just need to undo all the bad legislation that has squeezed free market price discovery, etc. Congress needs to roll back the bad legislation they have passed since WWII.
Congress does not need to “think like a company” and the public doesn’t have to “come up with a plan”. Congress just needs to start repealing Obamacare and then keep repealing all the other bad legislation they passed re: healthcare in the decades before that.
#1 healthcare cost = lawyers/lawsuits. Not going to get congress critters to limit lawsuits.
Indeed. I think what he is proposing is more or less "public drafting" of legislation, where the proposed legislation doesn't come out of K-street.
Sundance, at CTH, pointed out long ago that Trump has a systematic problem, because unlike the uniparty (which has hoards of lawyers and lobbyists composing legislation for them), Trump came into power with no resource for creating statutory and regulatory language - and the existing resources who perform that function are hostile to Trump's agenda.
Not even close to the anti competitive price fixing and lack of price disclosure for services.
As long as our Congressional reps are captives of the insurance industry and the ins industry writes the laws, I see miniscule chance for anything but token cost reductions. The cost of medical care is driven for the most part by the implied franchise the ins industry has on 1/6th of the entire US economy. If you had that, you wouldn’t give it up either.
PROPOSAL
All health insurance companies must offer a $1 dollar per month healthcare plan.
That is the total premium maximum: $1 dollar.
PASS IT, NOW!
- TheNext
“DOLLARCARE” PROPOSAL
All health insurance companies must offer a $1 dollar per month healthcare plan.
Total premium maximum: $1 dollar.
PASS IT, NOW!
- TheNext
(It needed a name. :-) And thanks Scott Adams for a great idea! And yes, very serious about this. Figure it out on your own though, or just keep complaining.)
For starters he might want to learn how to spell healthcare.
Denningers solution is the route to take. No ones even talking about it because everyone is trying to figure out how to placate the voters while still keeping the monster gravy train rolling...
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=232236
That used to be true. I'm not sure if it still is. A larger issue today appears to be fake pricing and the consolidation of medical providers into larger and larger groups.
It is nearly impossible now to determine actual prices, and real "costs" for medical services due to the wildly inflated prices everywhere in the system. Much of the high cost of medical care is actually faked, with hospitals and others willingly accepting pennies on the dollar for their services. But the fake prices and "discounts" are what insurance companies and hospital groups use to force consumers to have insurance.
Rampant over-use of expensive tests and medications is another major cost driver. Few generalists practice today, so diagnosis becomes a series of expensive tests by a whole panel of specialists.
“Primary their a$$es out. If the American people want health care as a right, they can ask for a constitutional amendment.”
A most simple statement that is so correct. It really cuts to the heart of the problem. It is harsh, but it is correct.
We have all rights that are not defined in the Constitution to be Federal. These rights are up to the individual states as applied by their state governments and do not have one damn thing to do with the federal government.
Personally I would like to see a system where people could opt in for catastrophic health care coverage. This would really not be that expensive compared to the total costs of health care. Individuals should be responsible for the day to day health care costs. This would then cause market forces to drive down the costs of health care on a day to day basis.
If they do not opt in for this coverage they lose. This seems unkind, but it is not. One must take some responsibility for their health. I do and I pay a lot for my health coverage. I would much rather pay for my normal expenses from my pocket and have insurance pay for catastrophic illness. I could dump my health plan and save a lot of money.
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