What are some alternative ideas for health care reform?
What are some alternative ideas for health care reform?
Since many people are in opposition to the health care reform that Obama is proposing, what are some alternative ideas to health care reform? If there really is a problem with our medical system, what are some other ways of fixing it besides creating one centralized insurance company?
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Answer by Melissa Baker
Privatize Medicare.
Transfer Medicaid to states jurisdiction.
Deregulate insurance industry.
Pass caps on pain and suffering lawsuits.
Cap tax deductible plans and extend deducitibilty to individual plans.
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Start off by allowing people to still participate in the employer’s group insurance, even if they leave the company or lose their job.
(portability)
Allow us to shop around for the best coverage we want, across State lines.
Cap malpractice lawsuits. The fraud associated with false claims amounts to over $ 30 billion a year.
Stop covering Illegal aliens.
Reduce federal and state mandates allowing more plan designs
Allow cross state shopping for more competition
Vote on Tarp reform, let people pick the insurance company they want instead of making them stick to one State.
Keep government out of our lives, they messed up:
Medicare
Medicaid
Social security
The U.S. Mail
Tell me one agency that has broken even or made money under the government
~~ I have learned That you can’t please everybody all the time.
The Democratic package does not propose one centralized insurance company.
Republicans have offered some ideas, but most of them are geared toward increasing the profits of medical insurers and providers, and do little to address the main problem: rapidly increasing health-care costs.
How about this….follow the 10th amendment and let the states deal with it?
Co ops.
There’s a group in Philadelphia, among others, who does this very ably. Members pay into a central pot. The pot then negotiates rates with doctors and hospitals to pay CASH for services. There’s no insurance involved. There’s no waiting for payment for the doctors. Whatever treatments the doctor and patient together decide are needed are not denied by some faceless insurance company or government bureaucracy. They are all members of a community, it’s locally viable, and it works.
If you want to know more, here’s a news story about it.
http://www.gawkk.com/christian-co-op-shares-health-care-bills-1/discuss
Health care savings accounts are one big aspect of it. People have an account that is created from which they can draw when they need health care. Since they are put in charge of their health care, they become “informed shoppers” because they get to KEEP the money they save. Once doctors, hospitals, clinics, therapists, etc., must “compete” like a REAL business, costs will drop.
Of course, we can’t talk about REAL reform without talking about tort reform… something which is glaringly lacking in the current bill.
Another (partial) solution is to make it possible for drugs to become generic faster. Let the government fund pharmaceutical research so the drug companies don’t have the overhead they want to recoup once a drug is discovered.
Get a job and pay for your own insurance. That’s the way it used to work until half the people decided not to work and let welfare pay their way.