I Tell You How Citizens Can Fix Health Care (Now that Congress Failed) ---Scott Adams

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:

I just saw my doctor after seeing him a month ago.

“I got the bill from last time - $200 for that visit - 15 minutes or so. How come it was that high!?”

“Oh - that was with our new XYZ Health Group? I don’t know how they bill that. $200 bucks!? That’s crazy.”

So he didn’t even seem to know what things cost!!?? (I think he is part of a new doctors group, I don’t recall the name of the group on the bill from previous visits.)

I told him that one thing was for sure, no matter how things go in Washington D.C., obamacare wasn’t going to last.

“Yes - one way or another things are going to change, that’s for sure.”

That's a good idea, but the problem is that little gray areas called

chronic conditions

and

precursors.

What if someone presents with ambiguous symptoms which might be a marker for an early cancer?

Do you forgo the tests to save money up front, and risk the person needing extremely expensive (and more likely futile) treatment later on, or do you pay up front for all the tests with a low likelihood of a true positive, to make sure you miss nobody.

Who pays for those tests? If the individual, then to save money, they are likely guaranteeing the insurance company has to pay for catastrophic later on.

Or someone with low grade MS. It might linger on for ten years or more without a flareup, or spiral downhill. Who determines the cutoff for the insurance company paying?

Then you have the issue of employer-provided insurance, and people getting downsized (secretly to save the company money on premiums)...

Finally, how does one allow insurance to reflect the true cost of lifelong extreme obesity, smoking, and the like? People push back pretty hard against not having "muh health care" irrespective of how many of their expenses they are causing...and if you jack up premiums for the overweight, how about for motorcyclists? Or for women in general who have far more health problems than men?

Just noting, these issues have to actually get addressed some how, with enough buy in for the bill to pass.

-- Which is why I have little hope (but am not giving up). --

It's way to early to be negative on Trump and his supporters. That legislation drafting service will be built, it takes time, but there is sufficient talent, and certainly a will to do it. There are also a few people in Congress who will promote "Trump-brand" legislation, once it is available.

Winning the presidency is only one step, a big one to be sure, but only one step in putting a hurt on the existing order, which aims to "spread the wealth" and "spread the misery" worldwide, in a New World Order.

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