[ICCtheWay]

Just say NO to Federal Government Health Programs. Return the system to the day before obamacare was signed into law. This may take several years as obama and obamacare have worked to nearly destroy the old system.

Personally, for some I do not mind if a program of setting up a system of Public Medical Clinics to take the burden off Emergency Rooms.

Work to reestablish competition not just within a state but across states for health insurance.. Work to refine a system for reestablishing Employer provided Heath Insurance.

And remember Health Insurance is not health care.

[meyer]

Let’s replace it with freedom!

[skeeter]

That is why conservatives should push Republicans to have an alternative plan ready to pass should the Supreme Court strike down the federal subsidies — a decision that should come by late June.

How about we replace with a system that actually worked - the US medical insurance industry circa 1966?

[Defiant]

Make all health care spending and medical expenses tax deductible, for the individual and his/her family only, not the employer. Employers can organize employee health groups, but employees pay the insurance.

Health care is no different than rebuilding the carburetor and feeding the gas tank on a company owned car. YOU are the equipment of your life, and your spending to keep it alive is your investment in the business. It is not income.

[gingerbread]

The best thing that the GOVERNMENT can do to the HEALTH CARE industry is to stay the hell away from it. Allow all health insurance companies to compete nation wide. Allow tax free health savings accounts. Some people, especially the younger people, allow them to buy catastrophic insurance, to take care of any catastrophic events. Every individual can buy the health insurance he or she can afford. As for those people that can’t afford any health insurance, we have the counties and the states to take care of that, like we did in the past. That way, we can go back to where we were before the government got involved in the HEALTH CARE business.

[FlingWingFlyer]

A whoopie cushion and two rubber chickens. Of course, that’s basically what ObamaCare is now.

[Lizavetta]

Our betters in government have tinkered so much with health insurance that people like me are completely priced out of the market.

They have refused to pass tort reform, refused to let you buy out of state, refused to keep illegals from using hospitals without paying, etc. etc.

I am a self-employed person and cannot pay $600 a month or more for insurance and I make too much to qualify for Medi-Cal. There is no other option for me, period.

And no one will convince me that they didn't plan it to be that way, either.

[Hoodat]

Replace it with a free open market. And make all medical expenses (including insurance premiums) deductible.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Undo the Medicare cuts.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Again, government IS the problem.

First, we already have a law from 1890, just enforce the Sherman Act. Why should insurance companies enjoy exemption from monopoly activity? Typically an insurance co-payment equates with the actual cost of provided procedure.

Second, we already have a law from 1914, just enforce the Clayton Act. Why should health care providers enjoy exemption from anti-competitive practices, such as posted prices? We ought to know how much two stiches in a non-life threatening situation might cost before we give consent for services.

Next, repeal the Volmstead Act. All medications ought to become over the counter medications instead of insurance prescription candy. A senior citizen ought not need a prescription to maintain their monthly dose of heart medications.

Then, tort reform. Ambulance chasers ought to bear personal responsibility for the costs associated with advancing frivolous lawsuits. Loser lawyer personally pays defendants damages, from attorney’s own pocket, otherwise attorney forfeits license to practice.