Things are so messed up now, that it would be difficult to fix health insurance and health care. The only thing that works is a free market in both. Medicare can’t last, and at some point older folks (and I am one!) will have to pay for their own health care.
If government had not intervened in the first place, health insurance and care would not have gotten so outrageously expensive. With more government involvement, things are only going to get worse with the result being bad care, higher costs, and rationing. Socialism always fails.
Our only hope is in the doctors who are breaking away from the system and interacting directly with patients. Also, the small clinics that some drug stores and others are setting up will help.
Another problem is that not every ailment requires a doctor with advanced training. Nurses and pharmacists should be allowed to do more than they can presently.
The path we are on now is unsustainable. The increasing number of old folks and the declining birth rates mean that at some point, people are going to have to pay their own bills. That is what should have happened all along.
Its unsustainable?
Medicare has been running operational deficits since the Bush second term well over 5 years requiring issuing national debt to pay some of those bills. Ironic with all the talk of government must ‘live within its budget’ And one reason why is that the GOP passed a huge increase in benefits in 2004 which Ryan supported.
But Ryan wont tell you that because it allows him to float his silly ‘we have to pass it now to find out what's in it 10 years later‘ medicare resolution that 100% exempts those born before a certain age from any cuts(they get to keep the Bush-Ryan 2004 medicaid expansion too), and tells the rest (younger) who get to pay the bills they are completely out of luck.
"You older people will continue to get what you been getting including that medicare gift we gave you in 2004, but those of you born a day later are out of luck you suckers. I am honest to tell you how I want to give you the shaft. But we save Medicare for you by giving you a coupon that you can use at the morgue to be cremated'
He only includes this stupid 55/10 year delayidea which no-one bought because he wanted to bribe the GOP base to support it, as they are the over 55 crowd.
It too obvious of a scam to sell.