The ‘market’ can fix middle class and above health care... the ‘market’ can build drive ways and homes... but NOT interstates. The challenge is better and cheaper... FOR ALL.
Give incentives for a CASH system to develop alongside traditional 3rd-party payer systems.
Let patients negotiate directly with doctors for this, give tax benefits to medical groups doing this.
Also allow people to form any health insurance association, group or collective they wish, without interference from Government. I am absolutely certain my Church, with its 1000 members, could create an insurance scheme for its members, that would take care of everyone in the Church, old and young, at much lower costs than government or 3rd party payer could.
enforce the rule of law and contracts against insurance companies. No “fine print” and no cancellations on agreed rates and terms.
An idea so crazy it just might work!
The free market economy brought America the best healthcare in the world until the feds began rooting around in the 70’s. The feds also have no constitutional authority to meddle in healthcare.
Economically and constitutionally, the market economy should run the show free from government interference.
Medicaid needs to focus on the poor who have nowhere else to turn.
I have always had a serious _itch about Medicaid. I’ve never understood why someone who was poor had better health insurance than someone who was working for a living. There has to be a better way than Medicaid.
Of course you could say that about a lot of programs but I was a MediCal eligibility worker and they had better insurance than I did who was handing it out to them. Used to peeve me off. lol
Agree. It’s time to start with Medicare first and killing it. CMS should be gone immediately as well
They really need to focus on healthcare. There are NO companies offering private health insurance in Arizona. If you aren’t on Medicare or have work related health insurance, you have to go Obamacare. I had friends who had retired early and bought private health insurance. It was affordable before the Obamacare disaster. Now it is astronomically expensive and in some states, like AZ, you cannot get it at all.
I agree: Leave Obamacare to fail all on its own, and allow any insurance company to sell any health policy in any state by passing/changing/eliminating any laws/regulations.
Great idea but the healthcare industry is so dominated by government laws and regulations I don’t think it’ll work. This was true before Obamacare.
They need to enforce antitrust law against health care providers. It is illegal to have materially different prices for different customers.
The health care industry in the U.S. is built on a mindset where we can shamelessly expect other people to pay our health care expenses. There is no “market” solution unless that fatal flaw is eliminated.
My daughter had surgery to have a benign mass removed over Christmas.
It was a 20 minutes procedure in out patient.
The bills do not stop coming.
I met the deductible. Now I am getting the 20%. Guess what, 20% of high numbers is still high numbers.
No more doctors here. I don't care if I am dying.
The Market is the ultimate cure but there still needs to be a transition to keep a lot who were strong-armed by the government to get screwed by the new regime. The resultant interim sucks but it is necessary.
Obama destroyed the working people’s healthcare by breaking up the employer based systems. The big corporations are glad that it is gone and to get it back will be near impossible.