Posted on 11/10/2016 10:09:15 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
WITH THE OBAMACARE exchanges collapsing and millions of people being battered by ghastly increases in health insurance premiums, what’s to be done?
Forgetting that socialism doesn’t work–never mind that it’s deeply immoral–Democrats are addicted to the idea of government-dominated health care. They see ObamaCare’s terminal crisis as the perfect opportunity to realize their age-old ambition of socialized medicine, hence the current mouthing of such slogans as “a single-payer system,” “Medicare for all” and the offer to consumers of “a public option,” i.e., subsidized policies from a health insurance company run by Uncle Sam.
Republicans should be ready with proposals that will help health care ultimately become a normal market, where patients are in charge, not such third-party payers as health insurers, Medicare and Medicaid. Currently, the patient isn’t the “customer,” which is why so many thousands of them die unnecessarily from infections received at hospitals or from medical errors. The current system works to make the patient as passive as possible. A consumer revolution won’t be achieved overnight, but several ideas will help.
– Nationwide shopping for health insurance. Bust up the Balkanized, state-by-state arrangement we have today. We’re one country, after all. There’s no reason that a resident of, say, New Jersey shouldn’t be allowed to buy a policy offered in Wisconsin. Let scores of companies compete for your business instead of the handful you now have. . .
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Nearest dumpster? Campfire?
Oh, I don’t know....how about doing the American thing and have a Free Market?
Take it out back, tie it to a post and shoot it....
With ObamaCare Collapsing, What Do We Do Next?
Collapse it faster...!
Remember Trump.
Repeal, and REPLACE Obamacare.
Obamacare was successful, because the GOP had done nothing, for the entire last generation.
Lots of Americans need to have guaranteed care. Existing conditions, things like that.
Protect them. While replacing what it wrong.
Signed, your loyal voter. :D
Yup ... just wait ... no one is going to be hurt in between obamacare out and Trumpcare in.
What to do next? How about move to North Korea? Kim Fat ‘Un will take care of you.
Obamacare would have become HilLIARyCare under Clinton- and it would have essentially been government health care.
Here’s a novel idea - if you want something, pay for it.
Repeal it now effective 12 months out. Congress has 12 months to figure out replacement
Abolish Obamacare on January 20th and and make all the deadbeat slackers on Obamacare repay all their past health insurance subsidies.
Mainly...get ready for the onslaught of blame, from the democrats, that will be placed on Donald Trump and the Republicans for Obamacare’s failure.
I hope that the new administration includes “loser pays” and other SUBSTANTIAL legal reforms This would help reduce medical costs by removing one of the “defensive medicine” incentives for doctors ordering unnecessary tests.
Why?
Where in the Constitution does is say that people have guaranteed health care?
Abolish Obamacare.
Abolish Medicaid.
Abolish Medicare.
Nope.
Government is (very much) involved in healthcare. There are books, and books, and books of regulations about every single thing.
Everything. It is why our healthcare is the MOST EXPENSIVE ON THE ENTIRE PLANET.
Nope. We need to pay attention to the people who need it.
Trump I believe, gets that.
Why replace it? Repeal it, and the laws hindering buying insurance on the free-market from wherever you wish. Then let it work itself out. I'm torn on pre-existing conditions, too. I don't like companies that drop people who purchase and use their product, thus forcing the move to a new policy with an existing condition, but I look at pre-existing conditions as someone buying homeowners' insurance after the house burned down, then forcing the insurance company to pay for the damage.
There has to be some middle-ground. Maybe split it, if you had coverage and were dropped, there could be recourse, but if you had no prior coverage, then too bad....
The best health care system in the world was nuked and all you can say is the GOP better shut up because they didn't have a plan to nuke it themselves.
All most as funny as your ad naseum circus act of "bring jobs back now, just sayin'" that went on and on and on and on from a person that showed very little signs of knowledge of basic economics.
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