Alternative Healthcare Plan

[pablo54]

I would like to propose a one line bill as an alternative to the ones currently being debated.

"The only person or entity that can profit from healthcare services are those that provide those services."

No tort reform needed because attorneys could only charge expenses when suing healthcare providers.
We would find out real quick which law firms really are “for the people”. The cost of liability in the medical
Industry is one of the main drivers of the continual increase in cost of services. For-profit insurance carriers would be history. No more multi-million dollar bonuses to presidents of carriers. No more clerks at Aetna approving or denying tests or treatment recommended by medical doctors.

I’m sure a good politician could stretch this out to two or three sentences if they worked hard at it. It is not universal healthcare but as other socialist nations have repeatedly proven, no one can afford it.

 

[Gary G]

I listened to a bit of Obama's townhall meeting. I heard him say that Medicare unfunded obligations that can't be met. A bit later, I heard him say that "if Medicare pays 90 cents on the dollar, then providers shift that 10% to privately insured individuals".

From the above, I think I know their plan. Get some people on socialized medicine and pay as Medicare does. The cost will be shifted to privately insured individuals. People will leave their private insurers as costs escalate. Then when everyone is on the social plan, they can pay fifty cents on the dollar. But we know that one of the fundamental laws of economics is a cap in prices leads to shortages of the product and long lines.

An alternative would to bring the troops home from those 130 countries they are deployed and use those trillions to cover leaving the older people on medicare while doing away with it for those younger. Get government out of medicine, relax regulation, and then private competition will bring prices down. One person said that 75% of the cost of medicine is government regulation.

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Like government has no money of it's own, it also has no power of it's own, except that which is given it by the people or that which is taken from them.   Albert Nock

[Gary G]

I would like to propose a one line bill as an alternative to the ones currently being debated.

"The only person or entity that can profit from healthcare services are those that provide those services."

No tort reform needed because attorneys could only charge expenses when suing healthcare providers.
We would find out real quick which law firms really are “for the people”. The cost of liability in the medical
Industry is one of the main drivers of the continual increase in cost of services. For-profit insurance carriers would be history. No more multi-million dollar bonuses to presidents of carriers. No more clerks at Aetna approving or denying tests or treatment recommended by medical doctors.

I’m sure a good politician could stretch this out to two or three sentences if they worked hard at it. It is not universal healthcare but as other socialist nations have repeatedly proven, no one can afford it.

 

It seems to me that this proposal would eliminate the insurers as well as the makers of medicines, instruments, and all medical supplies.