Posted on 08/16/2009 6:11:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You cannot fight something we nothing. You cannot just criticize without proposing something concrete.
The proposals given by the CEO of Whole Foods is a good start. If you disagree with some of his proposals, I'd like to hear your alternatives.
Ideally, we should keep this proposal within 100 pages so that people can read and understand it ( instead of the thousand page monstrosity being rammed down our throats by Congress ).
Some of what he says is smart but Whole Foods is liberal, over-priced and marginally good so, I’ll take what he says with a grain of salt.
This is, by far, the best laid out plan I have yet seen.
Any chance of this going through? Only in my dreams. OK, now back to the real world. Sigh....
Ideally, we’ll shop at Whole Foods, eat a veggie-based diet, cut down on animal fats, take healthy supplements, exercise daily and NOT NEED much health insurance. Absolutely works for me. And I’m well over 65. Pun intended.
My brother and I were talking about this kind of a plan tonight. I have heard of similar plans.
Not much of what he has proposed is new. Every item from high deductible policies to interstate insurance competition to tort reform has been proposed in the past.
And it has gone nowhere.
I don’t propose to have an answer why, but it might be that it is asking politicians on all levels to give up some control and power.
But, I should add that I like most of what he is saying.
Close the border, keep it closed, deport illegals and pass tort reform legislation.
Not a cure for spiraling costs but it’s a start.
Most of the '47 million uninsured' seem to show up at Grady, either at the ER or one of their free clinics. His suggestion was to fully fund the clinics and just let them provide health care to the indigent and working poor. They're doing it already anyway, but the cost is being passed on to paying customers, insurance companies, and the local taxpayers.
Anybody see a problem with this? Portable policies and HSAs for most folks, and public clinics for the people who can't afford that.
These are the types of measures that make sense and one would expect the Republicrats in Congress would be focusing on implementing instead of the Marxist nationalization of the medical industry being perpetrated by the red sons of bitches in power.
You may be interested in the point number one of the article.
In my area, Whole Foods is called “Whole Paycheck”.
I didn’t see where he said anything about whole foods in the article. They sounded like good ideas to me.
Bring back the pre-1986 medical deductions where we were allowed to deduct ALL medical expenses, not just the ones over a certain percentage of a persons/family’s gross (or net). As it stands, unless there has been a serious medical condition that year, no one can take advantage of that deduction.
If the deduction were reinstated, people would be more likely to pay for medical services, knowing at least that it would be deductible.
Yes: he’s MARKETING to stuck-up libs, giving them what they expect/want, AND making money off of it. Sounds like a capitalist to ME. . .
He may very well be a Leftist, but each of his points are valid, with the possible exception of Medicare reform, as that one is vague.
If each of the others were inacted, our health care ‘problem’ would vanish.
Besides FDA and possibly the VA - get the Feds out of health-care completely, including Medicaid/Medicare and removing any tax benefits or penalties for corporate programs, self-insurance, etc..
In a transition period, turn over Fed Money for medicaid/medicare to the States on gradually declining basis over 5 years. Then let individual States decide if they want to raise taxes to maintain similar programs, and have more activist or less activist health-care programs. It would remove the most massive layer of bureaucracy (the Feds), reduce costs, and most important - provide a laboratory of best practices in 50 different states. Speed, adaptability and flexibility to change would also increase.
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