Posted on 05/23/2014 7:59:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Letting the mechanisms of a free market work in health care services would be the ideal solution. However given that a free market place does not (has never?) exist(ed) in health care, all regulation, licensure, accreditation, and insurance programs (Employer,Medicare,Medicaid) would have to be eliminated so that a free market could exist. Me thinks most voters would not buy into that.
I am amazed at people who think the government can make healthcare less expensive by creating a gigantic, incompetent, bumbling government bureaucracy that costs trillions of dollars to operate, staffing it with more inefficient government workers, inserting the bureaucracy and its complex and costly rules and regulations into the healthcare system between the healthcare providers and the patient, and dictating what the healthcare provider can and cannot do, and what level and kind of healthcare the patient can have.
Here is a detailed summary of their proposal for you to consider AND critique:
The system that preceded Obamacare had little resemblance to a free market! There is/was government involvement in every phase of the enterprise.
The pricing of medical services is based off of Medicare reimbursement schedules, even for non-Medicare patients.
The government subsidizes businesses providing insurance to their workers by making the expense tax-deductible, but does not allow private citizens to deduct the cost of their insurance, skewing the system to employer-provided insurance.
When a person has spent his money, in the current and pre-Obamacare system, he goes on Medicaid, the Federal healthcare plan for the poor. Presumably a “free-market” system that “gets the Ferel (sic) government out of healthcare” would do away with Medicaid.
It goes on and on. The free-market hasn’t obtained in healthcare since the invention of the polio vaccine
Most drug stores and retail that provide prescriptions seem prepped for it with some of the services they already offer. Hospitals such as Cleveland Clinic are also getting into providing relatively reasonably priced testing, vaccination etc at convenient locations.
If the 'pubs were really on our side, and not in the business of finding a way for their corporate sponsors to profit, they'd be say "Repeal and DON'T replace" Obamacare.
Tremendously unpopular say what deadly is more like it.
Return or replace...the tedious realm of conceptual semantics.
It takes a village to destroy a village.
If the overlords do not want it for themselves then we should not be forced to use obamacare. Vote all those that voted for it and those RINOs who support it OUT!
Well then Sir, you seem to have the great idea. Show us.
Start seek and Find Health Insurance, $50 per month for families, no deductibles, cover it all. Show us how it is done....cheaply.
Affordability for a service is not a right. But it is something that will become more prevalent as we get govt OUT of it, ENTIRELY.
This was enacted in a rush with congress (future convicts) voting on it to "see what was in it", merely to please the tyrant. If a viable proposal for replacement has not already been put forth, then there won't be one, but continuing on the present course toward death panels and economic ruin is not the answer.
I’ve always believed in EVOLUTION, not REVOLUTION.
You don’t get rid of the things you don’ want in one big bang. You do it by stages. After all, we did not get into our socialized state overnight. It took several decades to get to where we are now. That, I am afraid is what will happen if we want to reverse the course.
So here are some proposals (not comprehensive but we can start here and evolve later ):
1) OPEN HEALTHCARE TO INTERSTATE COMPETITION. People should be allowed to buy healthcare across state lines. Don’t like what the HMO’s in New York are providing? Well allow Healthcare providers in Georgia, Texas, Virginia, and all other 50 states to offer their plans in NY and VICE VERSA.
This one change alone will LOWER cost.
Look what happened to LASIK EYE SURGERY. It is one of the few medical procedures not covered by any healthcare provider ( in other words, you have to pay for it ). It used to cost over $2,000 per eye. Now, the cost has DROPPED to half of that. WHY? COMPETITION.
2) TORT REFORM. LIMIT the amount of money injured people receive in a lawsuit. Not the near unlimited amount we have now. This REDUCES the cost of insurance of doctors and of course, it gets passed on to patients.
3) TAX BENEFITS to people who buy insurance privately ( WITH NO MANDATES ).
4) A TAX FREE health savings account at birth, whose principal sum would grow over the years and need not be expended by a particular date.
Funds accumulated in health care savings accounts would become part of the individual’s estate and could be passed on to heirs to pay for their medical expenses.
I am willing to bet that with this, a private competitive market in medical care would emerge to supplement or even replace the bloated bureaucratic health insurance programs of insurance companies and federal and state governments.
Getting rid of Obamacare in a big bang would be a blessing to this country. Best not to ‘evolve’ out of this one.
1) Agreed.
2) Agreed.
3) No way. That is hands on govt involvement, and thats how we got to where we are today. Taxation being used to reward or penalize. Taxation is for funding of legitimate govt functions. Period.
4)Partial agreement. - I believe that 401ks are a great idea, but they are now a low hanging fruit for a free spending govt that borderline hates you. Confiscation is probably coming, through a one-time tax.
Citizen’s Council for Health Freedom
http://www.cchfreedom.org/
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