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The reality is that we dont have a choice between taxes and better health care. There is no reason why health care needs to cost so much. We should be able to get far better health care for far less. Its just our system does not allow people to choose. If people had the ability to choose vendors. And let those vendors charge an insurance plan with prices that were up front. People would do the right thing. Right now prices are hidden. And people rarely have a choice. even among insurance providers.
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There is,precisely one reason healthcare costs so much. The insurance companies. They deny care, deny my rx if it is a single day early, raise my taxable premiums every year.
Ever seen an insurer resus anyone? No.
Get insurers out of health care.
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It’s a multi-prong fix:
- Get GOVT out of meddling in the Free Market (kill X# birds w/ one stone); kill the welfare state in any/all forms.
- Remove 3rd party pay (IE: like car insurance, ‘owned’ and PAID by the policy holder). Whatever tax benefits employers currently enjoy, should be open to the policy owner.
- Open HSAs for all. H’Care costs (down to band-aids) should be pre-tax.
- Up front costs for ALL Rx\procedures\devices\etc.
I don’t recall my parents griping re: taking to the doctor. It was ‘pay @ window’ and you knew the $$ before seeing the doc.
If you looked at 100 year old existing anti trust laws that have withstood the test of time, you would soon realize that it is a detailed description of our entire health care system.
Without insurance i can get any medical procedure or treatment for less than half usually