Why does it have to be a government solution? How about government get out altogether?
“How about government get out altogether?”
Modern medicine is in large part Article I, Section 8 patented drugs, some of which are very expensive.
TV commercials advertising patented pills and potions costing insurance companies and employers $10,000 to $125,000 per year per patient fill the airwaves.
I think my friend Don takes over a dozen different drugs.
Government isn’t getting out of health care.
Doctors will be state licensed for decades to come.
Prescriptions will still be required by law on thousands of drugs.
Labs must be certified to government enforced standards.
All the rules of government come at a stiff price, which tens of millions can not pay themselves. Millions never will be, no matter even if the GOP actually tried to make progress.
We do need to introduce market force, slowly and safely, back into health care.
The opportunity to roll back the welfare state by bringing back factory work to the USA isn’t even in the works, sorry to say.
If government at all levels federal and state would stop dictating coverage all this and more would be available. There would be ala carte policies available and people would buy as much coverage as they felt they needed or could afford.
But every special interest disease group has lobbied legislatures to include their pet condition as mandated coverage and pretty soon you can’t buy ala carte coverage.
The only thing government needs to regulate is basic fiduciary statutes as would be done for any insurance company.
And make premiums 100% tax deductible for those who buy insurance on the private market instead of from their employer.