One more- get government out of medicine and health care.
All health care providers must post their costs
Allow competition and a market based system
Get government completely out of the health care business
Tort reform
Must we enact these reforms to find out what's in them?
Dejavous all over again...........
The government-corporate-insurance triad is the root cause of of the wreck of the healthcare industry that has been foisted upon us today. Those three agents are solely responsible. The only people who would take exception to that are those who are a part of it.
Allow Michigan Upper peninsula residents to utilize medical doctors in Wisconsin. Here in the UP the medical facilities are basically being bought up by out of state medical providers. Marquette medical Clinics are now part of Duke Lifepoint out of North Carolina. Basically the UP of Michigan has medical care regions. Aspirus of Wausau is taking over the Western UP - Iron, Gogebic and Ontanogon Counties. Duke Lifepoint is taking over the Calumet,Baraga, Houghton, Marquette, Alger, Luce and Keweenaw Counties and is operating satellite clinics in Iron and Dickinson Counties. Dickinson County medical services are joining Bellin Hospital Green Bay wis. Delta and Schoolcraft Counties are jointly owned by a Catholic Order of Sisters. Menominee County all medical services are in Marinette Wis and are operated by Aurora healthcare out of Green Bay/Milwaukee. Mackinac and Chippewa counties jointly by the Chippewa memorial hospital (Sault sainte marie) and Mackinac straits (st. Ignace) Hospital with the Objiwa nation of Indians in partnership. the oddity is that medical services for referrals are being sought after in Wisconsin because Grand rapids,Ann Arbor and Detroit Metro facilities are anywhere from 4 - 13 hours drive away from points throughout the UP of Michigan. Medical care services are becoming regional and across state lines
Certificate of need laws need to be tossed in the trash.
Nurse practitioners should be able to go independent after two years of practice.