[wac3rd]

There are 5 “fixes” to healthcare:

1. Enforce the border
2. Interstate competition
3. Tort reform
4. Encourage private sector job growth, they help cover costs as a perk package
5. Prevention programs (e.g. make kids have gym class)

[SmokingJoe]

Add a massive crackdown on fraud to that list. Medicare and Medicaid fraud alone is estimated to be costing us up to a huge one third of the costs of these programs.
What we need is an agency, with very sharp teeth, preferably private and outside the government, that is charged with the job, and staffed by some of the toughest investigators you can find, who's entire business consists of cracking down on Medicare/Medicaid fraud, who are paid according to how much money they save tax payers. The laws should also be changed so that the organized Medicare?Medicaid fraud outfits who are making billions from ripping off tax payers, can have all their property seized, and face very long jail sentences of up to 30 years in jail.