Posted on 11/18/2013 9:05:44 AM PST by Kaslin
Just six weeks into the rollout of ObamaCare, the speculation is over. Democrat Senator Max Baucus has been proven remarkably prescient when months ago he opined that it would be a "train wreck." In fact, he understated the reality we now know to be true.
A totally dysfunctional website, anemic sign up numbers, privacy violations, millions of cancelations of existing plans, skyrocketing premiums and deductibles, a financial model already shattered, and the President lying about how he really wasn't lying all those other times. Optimism and high expectations are shattered.
ObamaCare will collapse. That already seems obvious. As bad as the first six weeks have been, the worst is still to come. Even Democrats who voted for it are crying "fix it" and looking for someone to blame other than themselves.
Many more opportunities to criticize the President's legacy legislation will present themselves. But, with the collapse a virtual certainty, the question of "What's next?" should take center stage.
A loyal reader of this space asked me recently, "You guys have lots of criticism of the President and ObamaCare, but where are your solutions?" A fair question.
Actually, I have offered my ideas in considerable detail. In January, 2009 I published my first book, A Return to Values: A Conservative Looks at His Party. In the book I proposed an "Agenda for America" for the GOP to adopt to regain public credibility after a couple of bruising election cycles. Party benefits aside, it was my attempt to offer solutions for the macro-challenges facing the country. "Transition to Patient-Centered Health Care" was the subject of Chapter 9.
That chapter in its entirety is found below. And if an author might be allowed a little personal privilege, after what America has endured over the last five years, I think it may be more relevant today as serious food for thought than it was when first published – which just happened to be the same month Barack Obama was first inaugurated.
The chapter was not then intended to be all inclusive, nor is it for today. It is simply my attempt to provide a solid framework for a beginning. The opinions and ideas you'll find in the essay flow naturally from the Principle of Freedom espoused in the following concluding paragraph from the chapter. I hope you will read it, and that it might cause you to think about solutions, too. Because after the collapse, somebody is going to have to have a better plan.
"As parents have for too long been closed out of their children's classrooms, likewise patients have been shut out of their own healthcare decisions. The solutions to solving the challenges we face can be summed up in one word – Freedom. And patients don't become more free when government gets bigger and more in control of their lives. Republicans need to say it, explain it, and deliver on the promise."
Use the scroll bar to the right to read through the entire text of Transition to Patient-Centered Health Care below.
Closing down the Federal Department of “Education” would be a good next step on the road to Liberty.
Departments of Education, HUD, HHS, Homeland Security...
All those and more need to go away...
And if you are not a Federal Marshal or FBI, you shouldn’t have an (official) gun. (The BATFE is a tax agency. They don’t need guns, just accountants.)
And all of DC knows it ( don't ask ) and wise minds are looking for a solution...
What’s frustrating is that
WE KEEP TELLING THEM WHAT THE PLAN IS
and they act like they either can’t hear it or
that it isn’t really a plan.
The plan is:
> interstate insurance market
> tax deductible individual premiums
> tax deductible HSAs
> tort reform
It’s been tried in Texas, and it works.
They already have a solution - "single payer".
What they're looking for is a way to package it so that they can sell it as something else.
Articles of impeachment should follow, but won’t. Well, maybe we can get rid of Holder.
geat rid of the EPA as well.
"We've got to pass the bill to see what's in it." "If you like your healthcare plan you can keep it." "You can keep your doctor." "This will not affect those people who have insurance." "16 million people will now have insurance that did not have it before."
Obama is no friend of Israel, period!
Gut the EPA while we still have something that vaguely resembles an economy.
I get a little frustrated with Rush and conservatives simply tearing at OCare and predicting its fall via death spiral. Then what? We need an answer ready to go.
There is a historic window of opportunity here, but nobody is discussing it: come up with 1000 creative ideas to do health care better, from insuring to treating to training doctors, de-regulating segments of the industry.
Now is the time to de-centralize, compete, innovate, bypass traditions and bureaucracies, and definitely leave government and lawyers out of it. Rush ought to take his vast wealth and develop an alternative model using the brightest and most agile conservative minds available, then advance it into the market.
Think “caged animal”.
There, fixed.
RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.
Saul Alinksy, Rules for Radicals
BTTT
A fair question but it shows a lot of ignorance.
Conservatives have been screaming for TORT reform, shopping across state lines and HSA's for years and years.
Finally people might start listening...but only because they had to get burned first.
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