If you’re going to reform health care and reduce costs, you need to get rid of most if not all mandated coverage. One very bare boned plan that wouldn’t include things like gender change surgery. Senior citizens could opt out of coverage for abortions.
The left won’t like it because they think every one should have the same coverage at the same cost. The insurance companies won’t like it because they will lose business.
This lady has done some of the finest reporting on Obamacare, bar none.
That being said, her proposed solution will NEVER be adopted. The Dems and the media would start eating Republicans alive with poor sucker stories, featuring poor, sick people who are being “raped by EEEEEEVIL insurance companies”.
We’re on the final approach to single payer.
You know what is absolutely the most infuriating thing about all of this? (Excepting the stupidity of starting it in the first place and destroying the existing health care frameworks)
It is that even if Obamacare dies, the tens of thousands (or even hundreds of thousands) of federal and state bureaucrats will likely continue to exist in some way, like some giant headless monster.
All the furniture, computers, buildings, and other things that are part of a large bureaucracy won’t go away either. They are going to find a way to keep them all “on hand” with their “valuable” experience while they try to formulate a follow-up to Obamacare.
Like a one-way ratchet, they will never give up ground they have lost. The last department I can even think of that was actually disbanded was Office of Economic Opportunity in 1981.
Good. It never was designed to provide us healthcare anyway.
In other words, all is going according to plan. Once the private insurers flee the playing field the government runs a single payer system and has complete control over one out of every six dollars spent in the United States.
I believe it was Stalin who said that if you want to control the people you must seize control of their health care.
“Make insurance premiums fully tax deductible, whether you get your plan at work or buy it yourself:”
Restore a free market in health insurance and the prices will tumble.
Socialism at it finest more to ensue.