Posted on 07/17/2017 8:25:50 PM PDT by jonefab
What? You mean the State legislatures wouldn’t be able to as easily manipulate the insurance pools for progressive ends? Insurers might have to be actually competitive?
It was a trending ruinous to protect these fiefdoms in the first place.
The disaster we had was better than the disaster we have ... but the old disaster came about because of a number of different things helped foster the abuse of insurance as if it were assurance, even as the preferred way for paying for services. It started to fester long before it was a problem, like most things that are dogging us now, and while eviscerating SOME progressivism is a start eviscerating is all at the federal level is really what we need if we are to have governance by constitutional means (and that should be the priority anyway).
Only monetary damages with cost of litigation (no punitive or pain and suffering, the former are by design and intent excessive fines while the latter are using the system to get your pound of flesh) and loser pays would be a nice start.
Then defund all it’s particulars and let it rot. And if they don’t like that the ideal response is to defund other progressive programs. Make each deal worse for them than the last.
Yep. Compromise with progressivism will still end up being progressivism.
I wish republicans really would view progressives as the enemy, people to be defeated and dismayed, rather that as people to be worked with or even tolerated.
Take the focus off insurance. Put medishare, directpay and other non-insurance approaches on an equal footing with insurance.
Remove the regulations that tell doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, IT firms how and what they must do.
Tort reform.
Mike Lee, Moran, Ted Cruz and somewhat Rand Paul coordinate with each other and issue joint statements.
Yeah.
It was the abuse of insurance that caused this system. People came to think of it as a benefit rather than a financial tool.
Not content with the health care services they could afford to pay for upfront they found a way to throw money down a weasel hole till much of what they once could afford they no longer can afford.
Great idea. How? And why didn't you do this in the first place if the solution is so obvious?
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1. Repeal
2. Allow insurance to be offered across state lines.
3. Encourage HSAs.
4. Let insurance companies offer any plan consumers want.
5. Move on to tax reform.
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You are completely missing the point. It’s not about the price of health insurance. It’s about the price of health care.
Let’s enforce anti-trust laws on the hospitals and pharma companies. Once that happens the cost of getting treatment will drop to the point you can pay out of pocket, without the need for “insurance”.
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Anti-trust vs. hospitals and Rx?? Forcing lower costs\freeloaders, long\$ approval process, patent theft... How ‘bout getting govt out of the way 1st. before we go lynching.
Getting away from 3rd party pay will lower costs.
Untying insurance from 3rd party (employer) will lower costs.
Opening markets across State lines will lower cost (unless it’s currently ILLEGAL by Congress, shouldn’t it already be available??).
Maybe some tort reform\loser pays would help too.
Pretty much UN-doing ANYTHING the govt has done, touch or even LOOKED at, will clean up some of these problems.
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