Posted on 08/16/2013 7:18:08 PM PDT by JSDude1
This article once again reminds me of the old “joke” about how things work in Washington:
The Democrats propose to tear down the Washington Monument, and the Republicans respond with a plan to do it in three stages.
“No. We don’t need a “Republican” substitute. We need the government to get entirely out of things related to health and medicine. ..”
Right on!
Also, the Republicans DID have some great ideas such as tort reform, allowing Americans to have to freedom to purchase insurance across state lines, etc..
Then we can move on to how much better things go when the government is out of the housing market, the stock market, the food business, the education business, the religion business, the race business . . . It's a whole, wonderful reality out there.
Replace health insurance with pay for service and catastrophic insurance as someone mentioned above. Make it unprofitable for the trial lawyers while your at it.
Here in the socialist hellhole of Massachusetts, I “choose” from a shrinking list of insurance companies. There were only four or five last year, I believe...and whoodathunk it but their prices are pretty similar give or take $20.
That’s because the socialist hellhole of Massachusetts (in addition to forcing residents to purchase a product) mandates the insurers cover a whole host of nonsense that most sane people would consider to be elective options. Those who do not want them, instead of having the choice of putting that item back on the shelf, are forced to put it in their cart anyway.
Add price caps and what you have are a dwindling pool of companies who charge high premiums with higher deductibles and the average working stiff ends up paying for his health care out of pocket in addition to said premiums. Aside from an annual physical, I pretty much pay for doctor’s visits, prescriptions and everything else until I hit $2,500 in out of pocket expenses. I have what amounts to horrendously overpriced catastrophic coverage that the state desperately hopes I won’t use so my premiums can go towards subsidizing somebody else’s health care.
Get government out of the way (after they open the health insurance market across state lines). Let me shop for my own needs. Competition will ensue and prices will fall.
How about we go back to the way things were before where there weren’t yearly 40% increases in healthcare premiums?
Tort reform, please.
Each person should have multiple choices:
1. Work for a company that includes insurance as a part of your pay package.
2. Buy your own insurance.
3. Pay cash if and when you need medical care.
Self responsibility is such a wonderful thing.
Why? Let the free market shake it out!
“Go back to what we had before Obamacare and buy all of those without insurance a policy.”
Let’s see now.
What we had before: Those without coverage need medical attention. They go to the hospital and we pay.
What’s coming: We pay for those who didn’t have coverage to get coverage. They go to the hospital but we already paid for it.
In both cases you and me are out money for indigent care. In the second case, we’re probably also putting a bunch of money in the pockets of a bunch of Democrat bureaucrats so we probably end up paying 2X or 3X what we paid before for the tramps to get care. What a great system!
no one should ever be foolish enough to DEMAND that others do what can not and does not NEED to be done.
What the Republicans need to do is stop agreeing with the Dims that socialized medicine is the answer. Yes healthcare needed fixing, it didn’t need to be nationalized. Tort reform and insurance reform is what is needed. Don’t let the Dims set the rules of the game.
Yeah, just the ticket.
The only way we can carp about the Democrats unconstitutional plan is to offer up an unconstitutional plan of our own?
This guy isn’t just running on empty, there are no fums left in the tank.
Here’s a novel idea. A genuine free market.
When there is nothing worse everything is better.
I can distinctly recall a time, before ‘healthcare insurance’ really took hold, where my parents, upon visiting the local doc. for their child (me) took ~5min. at the window in (to pay) and 30sec. after to say thanks/follow-up.....and all for ~$10.
Has ANYTHING gotten better when Congress decides to ‘do something’?? GET THE F* OUT OF THE WAY
Pay for your own healthcare out of your own pocket?
Yes that and tort reform along with allowing insurance companies to compete across state lines to lower the cost.
For some reason the ideas of the two MD in the republican party - Michael Burgess and ____ from GA don’t seem to be getting much of a hearing. Why not??
Per Article 1, Section 8, and the Tenth Amendment, the federal government has no business in the examining room, the operating room, the classroom, the boardroom, or the bedroom.
It’s the law of the land.
Given that the status quo is the best health care system in the world, why would a ‘replacement’ option be needed?
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