Dr. K is absolutely spot on here, IMNSHO...
Tort Reform ... Bigtime!
So sensible and ‘Progressive’. Just the reason no one, Dem or Rep, will ever embrace it. Too many Lobbyists toes would be crushed.
Consolidate Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), Veterans & Indian healthcare into ONE single federal administration, with one toll-free phone number. Privatize the customer service part of this new administration. The federal government would take over the state's responsibility of Medicaid from the states; in exchange, the federal government would abolish the Dept of Education, Housing, Commerce, Transportation, Energy, EPA, etc and return these functions back to the states where it belongs.
Now this new administration would strictly provide the following functions:
- Supplemental retirement benefits for EXISTING seniors and those approaching the retirement age
- Healthcare for seniors and the TRULY disabled (Paralyzed gang-bangers, illegal aliens, and "low-income" bums who abuse the system would be disqualified)
Give seniors a healthcare debit card and a yearly allottment of what they're eligible for based on actuary tables and the analysis of their doctors, not bureaucrats. Doctors would then get paid on the spot and set up a reasonable fee schedule and they don't have to deal with bureaucracy as well.
Privatize the rest of healthcare - get the government completely out of healthcare and let the private sector work its magic. Employers should drop their plans and let people buy healthcare off the market.
PROBLEM SOLVED!
But then I guess we haven't yet heard from the small cabal of Kraut-bashers who frequent FR. Wonder what they'll say this time to persuade us that he's never to be trusted?
This sounds FISHY! Must-report-to-White-Crib! Dems say R’s have NO ideas for healthcare reform, must-be-true... Must-believe-in-The-One. Hope! Change! Yes-we-can!
Make some ads with Dr. Krauthammer in his wheelchair. Have him explain what must be done. Tough act to follow.
BTTT!
95% of trial lawyers contributed to O campaign. What’s ironic is after the massive, single-payer gov control system is in place there won’t be anybody to sue and that’ll be the end of that. Tort reform — nobody left to sue.