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To: E. Pluribus Unum

For health care, bring on market force:
1. Break most hospitals into two highly competitive entities
2. Convert other hospitals into real estate leasing entities with competing surgical suites and nursing wings
3. Separate out drug coverage so hospital systems can run care coverage systems and cut out insurance company overhead and meddlers. Hospital system plans might charge an age-related fee if you lack a drug plan listed by the hospital system plan.
4. Create interstate drug plans that don’t have to cover every drug. To qualify for exchange listing and federal subsidies, they would have to most (~80% or more) in all important types (large volume recombinant, small volume recombinant, breakthroughs under patent, etc.). Group and exchange plans to offer vouchers at plan set amounts for out-of-formulary drugs. Plans without minimums (or vouchers) could be vended directly to individuals and families.
5. These plans would be all the doctors (and AI) prescribe for formulary drugs with co-pays equal to manufacturing cost
6. Have drug patents limited by government sourced product revenue and overall domestic government health care spending and not by time [so drug companies have an incentive to minimize government health care funding]
7. Require Kirchoff patent collapse to a single entity upon FDA marketing approval of a covered entity
8. reform medical education, breaking down medicine and dentistry into simpler chunks and start it in the first year of college
9. replace most primary care doctoring with AI
(human doctor would confirm AI diagnosis, orders for expensive tests[MRI, genetic], prescribe radiation imaging/treatment, and voucher/government co-pay drugs)


7 posted on 11/16/2025 11:05:53 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

10 - The ability to obtain a PPO plan nationwide, so you can healthcare shop nationwide.


9 posted on 11/16/2025 11:26:28 AM PST by bobcat62
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