Replacing Obama-care should be temporary legislation IMHO, not something that lingers. DocFix for example, forgiveness of medical debt if the doctor accepts a generous percenatage from the govt — that’s an annual bill that doctors had learned to count on.
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Then we can drive wedge issues — grossly self-inflicted disabilities should not be funded in any way.
For example, some goon shoots at a policeman who shoots back. The criminal is hospitalized and crippled for life. Of course we should keep him alive until he is found guillty. But after found guilty?
Since the cripple is hardly a danger in public, why feed him in prison?
Judge could rule ‘time served’, and out in the street the creep goes. NO government aid of ANY kind. It was an incredibly GROSS [and evil] way to get himself crippled. No SS. No hospital — just private charity.
How many people would agree with that?
We need to get the government out of healthcare completely to bring down the costs. But of course we’ve got people who have paid a lifetime into Medicare and expect to get that coverage—so that should be the last to go.
There is zero reason for the federal government to be involved in healthcare at all—and it should transition out of Medicaid.
However, we’re not going to let the truly needy go uncared for—however they got there. (E.g., most most costly Medicaid costs are tied to obesity.) What we need to do is minimize the truly needy with free market reforms and incentives that make more people able to pay for it themselves.