We must not compromise. We have them on the run.
Let them WIN whatever they can...no giveaways.
The Coops must NOT have any tax or regulatory advantages over the insurance companies.
They’re just floating this to see the public’s response.
Even with all the citizen outrage spawned by the national health insurance bill, I don’t think The Marxist Onada and his gang of angry commies are ready to accept reality. That is, the public’s rejection of Onadacare.
I agree that changes need to made to how we dispense and pay for health care. But, simple old retired soldier that I am, I don’t think there is anything especially complex about doing it.
Here are my thoughts:
1. Create affordable private sector catastrophic health insurance for everyone that wants it.
2. Return to “pay as you go” for sniffles, cuts and other minor mishaps.
3. Health insurance should follow the insured wherever he/she goes.
4. Health care infrastructure (hospitals, clinics, labs etc) should be “not for profit”.
5. Doctors should not be permitted to have a monetary interest in hospitals and labs.
6. Health care providers (doctors, nurses, techs) should be free to set their on rates.
7. Tort reform is essential if health care costs are to be contained. I’m not usually a proponent of one size fits all solutions. But there needs to be a clear natiional definition of what constitutes malpractice. All malpractice suits should be subject to review by a panal of doctors and lawyers before being heard in court to weed out the frivolous suits. Those bringing malpractice suits to court should pay the accussed’s costs if they lose.
8. Patient care should be left entirely in the hands of medical care providers. Companies in the health insurance business should not be allowed to interfere in patient care. However, I think insurance companies should be permitted to maintain a file on all health care providers of their insured. This way a third party would be monitoring performance of the doctors, hospitals, clinics and pharmacies. The HMO/PPO “delay and deny cycle” needs to be eliminated.
9. For those who’re unable to afford any health care insurance, local communities should establish a fund (Community Chest, if you will) to help these people out until they are able to afford health insurance. In other words, communities should take care of their own. Having to look their tax-paying neighbor in the eye each time they put their hand out will tend to discourage abuses of the public trust.