Other good resources:
“Lives at Risk” by Goodman et al.
“Top 10 Myths of US Health Care” by Pipes.
“Your Doctor is Not In,” by Orient
Interessting. But if someone is interessted in a oppinion
from someone living in europe. It really looks like that both “sides” in the US tend to only pick out the negative (depends if people are pro or contra) or only the positive affects of so called “socialzied” health
care and ignore everything else. From a neutral observation i have yet to read a somehow “ballanced” observation. One side says “it´s the heaven on earth” (it´s not) the other side says it´s the worst thing that ever could happen (wich is not true too).
You know if they simply outlawed preexisting condition as being an exception for health insurance with no individual mandate, they would help collapse the health insurance industry by making their cost necessarily go thou the roof until almost everyone is an out of pocket payer.
Thus reintroducing individual price selection to our health care market.
The problem is this is no more with in the power of the Federal government then any other aspect of health-care law and taxes. It is however within the power of the State governments.
So with that in mind I am against ending the barriers between the States on the health insurance market.
We can uses this against them, by crashing the health insurance market in our State. The only problem then is the Federal tax advantages to having such insurance.
The vast majority of the state’s population would be at a tax disadvantage compared to the rest of the states.
The silver lining being the health-care market in the state would go down in cost over time due to newly active individual price selection and health responsibility.
This works because of the pyramid of where health-care cost are going. The people who will keep the health insurance longest have the highest costs, thus driving up the cost of insurance exponentially, until very little of the population is on health insurance, and most are out of pocket consumers actively involved in price selection and health responsibility. Thus creating price competition again in the overall health-care system.
So unless the Feds want to end the tax benefits to having health insurance or their own insurance programs like Medicare and Medicare. I don’t want them doing anything at all. Cause its otherwise not constitutional and/or not helpful.