What would your solution be? (just curious, no sarcasm intended.) There has to be a strategy out there that would work for everyone, I just have not run across one yet (I know this Healthcare bill is not it).
Here’s a good start:
1. Get rid of the law that says all people have a right to be treated whether they can pay or not. Health care is not a right because that means you could lawfully force someone against their own will to provide a service for you. This law also allows too many people to show up in emergency rooms so they do not have to pay for their own health care. Why should a group of people (doctors, nurses, administrators) be forced by law to provide their services for free? Many hospitals have gone bankrupt at least partially because of this, so this law has to be repealed.
2. For those among us who truly cannot afford health care due to physical, emotional, or psychological disabilities, local governments (not the Federal government) should be encouraged to set aside a certain percentage of the money they collect to provide for these people. And when that money is gone, it is gone. Private charitiies and volunteers would have to make up the slack.
3. Get states to get rid of all mandates - this would decrease costs. Why should any state force me, a male, to buy insurance in case I get pregnant?
4. Get rid of the law that prohibits buying insurance over state lines - this would reduce costs. Why outlaw one of the main things that will reduce costs - competition?
5. Finally, everyone who believes health care should be a right and that doctors, nurses, administrators, and insurance companies should not profit from their craft should go to medical school and/or open an insurance company so they can provide those services any way they want. In fact, they should provide them in the most altruistic way possible - for free.
How’s that?