Healthcare Solution Is So Simple

[Weatherman2020]

The 8 step road to affordable healthcare for all:

1. Price transparency and consistency. Require all providers (hospitals, doctors, etc..) to clearly publish their prices by service and by diagnosis in advance, physically and electronically, in both human and machine-readable formats.

2. Stop gouging the uninsured. Require that providers give people who are paying out of their own pocket “most favored nation” status – giving them the best price that the provider offers to any private insurer.

3. Easier approval for generics in the US – to create more price competition in drugs and devices, and bring prices down.

4. FDA drug approval reciprocity with Europe. Once a drug is approved in Europe or the US, it defaults to an approved state across the Atlantic.

5. Tort reform. Cap pain and suffering awards. Reduce some of the drive for defensive medicine.

6. *Increase* medical R&D from the NIH and elsewhere (instead of decreasing it, as the Trump budget proposed). And specifically fund R&D into more cost-effective treatments that can bring the cost of healthcare down.

7. Allow cross-state exchanges.

8. Slowly phase out the employer health care tax credit – the single thing that most ties health insurance to one’s job, and which significantly distorts insurance markets.

Healthcare Improvements Republicans Could Make

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Repubs?

Not unless they suddenly give up their allegiance to big biz, insurance, pharma.

Have you noticed who is prez now? Or looked at his swamp cabinet?

Never happen.

 

[debbiedowner]

Number 6 won't work Trump wants to cut 1.2 Billion from NIH immediately.

 

[dblack]

The 8 step road to affordable healthcare for all:

1. Price transparency and consistency. Require all providers (hospitals, doctors, etc..) to clearly publish their prices by service and by diagnosis in advance, physically and electronically, in both human and machine-readable formats.

2. Stop gouging the uninsured. Require that providers give people who are paying out of their own pocket “most favored nation” status – giving them the best price that the provider offers to any private insurer.

3. Easier approval for generics in the US – to create more price competition in drugs and devices, and bring prices down.

4. FDA drug approval reciprocity with Europe. Once a drug is approved in Europe or the US, it defaults to an approved state across the Atlantic.

5. Tort reform. Cap pain and suffering awards. Reduce some of the drive for defensive medicine.

6. *Increase* medical R&D from the NIH and elsewhere (instead of decreasing it, as the Trump budget proposed). And specifically fund R&D into more cost-effective treatments that can bring the cost of healthcare down.

7. Allow cross-state exchanges.

8. Slowly phase out the employer health care tax credit – the single thing that most ties health insurance to one’s job, and which significantly distorts insurance markets.

Healthcare Improvements Republicans Could Make

That's a decent set of goals. Watch Congress walk on past them.

 

[debbiedowner]

The 8 step road to affordable healthcare for all:

1. Price transparency and consistency. Require all providers (hospitals, doctors, etc..) to clearly publish their prices by service and by diagnosis in advance, physically and electronically, in both human and machine-readable formats.

2. Stop gouging the uninsured. Require that providers give people who are paying out of their own pocket “most favored nation” status – giving them the best price that the provider offers to any private insurer.

3. Easier approval for generics in the US – to create more price competition in drugs and devices, and bring prices down.

4. FDA drug approval reciprocity with Europe. Once a drug is approved in Europe or the US, it defaults to an approved state across the Atlantic.

5. Tort reform. Cap pain and suffering awards. Reduce some of the drive for defensive medicine.

6. *Increase* medical R&D from the NIH and elsewhere (instead of decreasing it, as the Trump budget proposed). And specifically fund R&D into more cost-effective treatments that can bring the cost of healthcare down.

7. Allow cross-state exchanges.

8. Slowly phase out the employer health care tax credit – the single thing that most ties health insurance to one’s job, and which significantly distorts insurance markets.

Healthcare Improvements Republicans Could Make

That's a decent set of goals. Watch Congress walk on past them.

Yep, the listed price will never happen. If Obama truly wanted to help out with this healthcare he would have started with the medical field and prices.

 

[Cecilie1200]

The 8 step road to affordable healthcare for all:

1. Price transparency and consistency. Require all providers (hospitals, doctors, etc..) to clearly publish their prices by service and by diagnosis in advance, physically and electronically, in both human and machine-readable formats.

2. Stop gouging the uninsured. Require that providers give people who are paying out of their own pocket “most favored nation” status – giving them the best price that the provider offers to any private insurer.

3. Easier approval for generics in the US – to create more price competition in drugs and devices, and bring prices down.

4. FDA drug approval reciprocity with Europe. Once a drug is approved in Europe or the US, it defaults to an approved state across the Atlantic.

5. Tort reform. Cap pain and suffering awards. Reduce some of the drive for defensive medicine.

6. *Increase* medical R&D from the NIH and elsewhere (instead of decreasing it, as the Trump budget proposed). And specifically fund R&D into more cost-effective treatments that can bring the cost of healthcare down.

7. Allow cross-state exchanges.

8. Slowly phase out the employer health care tax credit – the single thing that most ties health insurance to one’s job, and which significantly distorts insurance markets.

Healthcare Improvements Republicans Could Make

That's a decent set of goals. Watch Congress walk on past them.

Yeah, I don't understand why they weren't prepared for this, and felt the need to cut and paste that pile of crap from Obamacare in the first place. It's not like there's a shortage of available plans to choose from floating around in Congress. They sent a repeal bill to Obama repeatedly. Why didn't they just dust that sucker off and send it back through? Why didn't they sit down with the multiple Congressmembers and Senators who have proposed plans to replace Obamacare and just pick one, for God's sake?

 

[debbiedowner]

The 8 step road to affordable healthcare for all:

1. Price transparency and consistency. Require all providers (hospitals, doctors, etc..) to clearly publish their prices by service and by diagnosis in advance, physically and electronically, in both human and machine-readable formats.

2. Stop gouging the uninsured. Require that providers give people who are paying out of their own pocket “most favored nation” status – giving them the best price that the provider offers to any private insurer.

3. Easier approval for generics in the US – to create more price competition in drugs and devices, and bring prices down.

4. FDA drug approval reciprocity with Europe. Once a drug is approved in Europe or the US, it defaults to an approved state across the Atlantic.

5. Tort reform. Cap pain and suffering awards. Reduce some of the drive for defensive medicine.

6. *Increase* medical R&D from the NIH and elsewhere (instead of decreasing it, as the Trump budget proposed). And specifically fund R&D into more cost-effective treatments that can bring the cost of healthcare down.

7. Allow cross-state exchanges.

8. Slowly phase out the employer health care tax credit – the single thing that most ties health insurance to one’s job, and which significantly distorts insurance markets.

Healthcare Improvements Republicans Could Make

That's a decent set of goals. Watch Congress walk on past them.

Yeah, I don't understand why they weren't prepared for this, and felt the need to cut and paste that pile of crap from Obamacare in the first place. It's not like there's a shortage of available plans to choose from floating around in Congress. They sent a repeal bill to Obama repeatedly. Why didn't they just dust that sucker off and send it back through? Why didn't they sit down with the multiple Congressmembers and Senators who have proposed plans to replace Obamacare and just pick one, for God's sake?

Makes you wonder if they really ever did want to repeal or just did all this for show and votes.

 

[Cecilie1200]

The 8 step road to affordable healthcare for all:

1. Price transparency and consistency. Require all providers (hospitals, doctors, etc..) to clearly publish their prices by service and by diagnosis in advance, physically and electronically, in both human and machine-readable formats.

2. Stop gouging the uninsured. Require that providers give people who are paying out of their own pocket “most favored nation” status – giving them the best price that the provider offers to any private insurer.

3. Easier approval for generics in the US – to create more price competition in drugs and devices, and bring prices down.

4. FDA drug approval reciprocity with Europe. Once a drug is approved in Europe or the US, it defaults to an approved state across the Atlantic.

5. Tort reform. Cap pain and suffering awards. Reduce some of the drive for defensive medicine.

6. *Increase* medical R&D from the NIH and elsewhere (instead of decreasing it, as the Trump budget proposed). And specifically fund R&D into more cost-effective treatments that can bring the cost of healthcare down.

7. Allow cross-state exchanges.

8. Slowly phase out the employer health care tax credit – the single thing that most ties health insurance to one’s job, and which significantly distorts insurance markets.

Healthcare Improvements Republicans Could Make

That's a decent set of goals. Watch Congress walk on past them.

Yeah, I don't understand why they weren't prepared for this, and felt the need to cut and paste that pile of crap from Obamacare in the first place. It's not like there's a shortage of available plans to choose from floating around in Congress. They sent a repeal bill to Obama repeatedly. Why didn't they just dust that sucker off and send it back through? Why didn't they sit down with the multiple Congressmembers and Senators who have proposed plans to replace Obamacare and just pick one, for God's sake?

Makes you wonder if they really ever did want to repeal or just did all this for show and votes.

No, I can honestly say that I've never wondered about that question at all. I always believed he was full of shit.

 

[debbiedowner]

The 8 step road to affordable healthcare for all:

1. Price transparency and consistency. Require all providers (hospitals, doctors, etc..) to clearly publish their prices by service and by diagnosis in advance, physically and electronically, in both human and machine-readable formats.

2. Stop gouging the uninsured. Require that providers give people who are paying out of their own pocket “most favored nation” status – giving them the best price that the provider offers to any private insurer.

3. Easier approval for generics in the US – to create more price competition in drugs and devices, and bring prices down.

4. FDA drug approval reciprocity with Europe. Once a drug is approved in Europe or the US, it defaults to an approved state across the Atlantic.

5. Tort reform. Cap pain and suffering awards. Reduce some of the drive for defensive medicine.

6. *Increase* medical R&D from the NIH and elsewhere (instead of decreasing it, as the Trump budget proposed). And specifically fund R&D into more cost-effective treatments that can bring the cost of healthcare down.

7. Allow cross-state exchanges.

8. Slowly phase out the employer health care tax credit – the single thing that most ties health insurance to one’s job, and which significantly distorts insurance markets.

Healthcare Improvements Republicans Could Make

That's a decent set of goals. Watch Congress walk on past them.

Yeah, I don't understand why they weren't prepared for this, and felt the need to cut and paste that pile of crap from Obamacare in the first place. It's not like there's a shortage of available plans to choose from floating around in Congress. They sent a repeal bill to Obama repeatedly. Why didn't they just dust that sucker off and send it back through? Why didn't they sit down with the multiple Congressmembers and Senators who have proposed plans to replace Obamacare and just pick one, for God's sake?

Makes you wonder if they really ever did want to repeal or just did all this for show and votes.

No, I can honestly say that I've never wondered about that question at all. I always believed he was full of shit.

They are all full of shit, let's face it we the American people have been duped most of our life's. Once elected they don't care about anyone except the ones that can funnel the most money to them and covering their ass with a lifetime job if they ever get voted out. I do believe that some go up to D.C. with the right intention's but that first envelope handed to them with $10 grand of cash immediately has them bent over and using KY.

 

[Political Junky]

Trump is fool for saying it's easy.
He gave up on healthcare and a day later was back at it.

 

[Penelope]

The 8 step road to affordable healthcare for all:

1. Price transparency and consistency. Require all providers (hospitals, doctors, etc..) to clearly publish their prices by service and by diagnosis in advance, physically and electronically, in both human and machine-readable formats.

2. Stop gouging the uninsured. Require that providers give people who are paying out of their own pocket “most favored nation” status – giving them the best price that the provider offers to any private insurer.

3. Easier approval for generics in the US – to create more price competition in drugs and devices, and bring prices down.

4. FDA drug approval reciprocity with Europe. Once a drug is approved in Europe or the US, it defaults to an approved state across the Atlantic.

5. Tort reform. Cap pain and suffering awards. Reduce some of the drive for defensive medicine.

6. *Increase* medical R&D from the NIH and elsewhere (instead of decreasing it, as the Trump budget proposed). And specifically fund R&D into more cost-effective treatments that can bring the cost of healthcare down.

7. Allow cross-state exchanges.

8. Slowly phase out the employer health care tax credit – the single thing that most ties health insurance to one’s job, and which significantly distorts insurance markets.

Healthcare Improvements Republicans Could Make

No its not, here is an article which contains a lot about medications:

Health at a Glance 2015 | OECD READ edition

 

[dblack]

The 8 step road to affordable healthcare for all:

1. Price transparency and consistency. Require all providers (hospitals, doctors, etc..) to clearly publish their prices by service and by diagnosis in advance, physically and electronically, in both human and machine-readable formats.

2. Stop gouging the uninsured. Require that providers give people who are paying out of their own pocket “most favored nation” status – giving them the best price that the provider offers to any private insurer.

3. Easier approval for generics in the US – to create more price competition in drugs and devices, and bring prices down.

4. FDA drug approval reciprocity with Europe. Once a drug is approved in Europe or the US, it defaults to an approved state across the Atlantic.

5. Tort reform. Cap pain and suffering awards. Reduce some of the drive for defensive medicine.

6. *Increase* medical R&D from the NIH and elsewhere (instead of decreasing it, as the Trump budget proposed). And specifically fund R&D into more cost-effective treatments that can bring the cost of healthcare down.

7. Allow cross-state exchanges.

8. Slowly phase out the employer health care tax credit – the single thing that most ties health insurance to one’s job, and which significantly distorts insurance markets.

Healthcare Improvements Republicans Could Make

That's a decent set of goals. Watch Congress walk on past them.

Yeah, I don't understand why they weren't prepared for this, and felt the need to cut and paste that pile of crap from Obamacare in the first place. It's not like there's a shortage of available plans to choose from floating around in Congress. They sent a repeal bill to Obama repeatedly. Why didn't they just dust that sucker off and send it back through? Why didn't they sit down with the multiple Congressmembers and Senators who have proposed plans to replace Obamacare and just pick one, for God's sake?

Makes you wonder if they really ever did want to repeal or just did all this for show and votes.

I've never had any doubts on that score.

 

[Cecilie1200]

The 8 step road to affordable healthcare for all:

1. Price transparency and consistency. Require all providers (hospitals, doctors, etc..) to clearly publish their prices by service and by diagnosis in advance, physically and electronically, in both human and machine-readable formats.

2. Stop gouging the uninsured. Require that providers give people who are paying out of their own pocket “most favored nation” status – giving them the best price that the provider offers to any private insurer.

3. Easier approval for generics in the US – to create more price competition in drugs and devices, and bring prices down.

4. FDA drug approval reciprocity with Europe. Once a drug is approved in Europe or the US, it defaults to an approved state across the Atlantic.

5. Tort reform. Cap pain and suffering awards. Reduce some of the drive for defensive medicine.

6. *Increase* medical R&D from the NIH and elsewhere (instead of decreasing it, as the Trump budget proposed). And specifically fund R&D into more cost-effective treatments that can bring the cost of healthcare down.

7. Allow cross-state exchanges.

8. Slowly phase out the employer health care tax credit – the single thing that most ties health insurance to one’s job, and which significantly distorts insurance markets.

Healthcare Improvements Republicans Could Make

That's a decent set of goals. Watch Congress walk on past them.

Yeah, I don't understand why they weren't prepared for this, and felt the need to cut and paste that pile of crap from Obamacare in the first place. It's not like there's a shortage of available plans to choose from floating around in Congress. They sent a repeal bill to Obama repeatedly. Why didn't they just dust that sucker off and send it back through? Why didn't they sit down with the multiple Congressmembers and Senators who have proposed plans to replace Obamacare and just pick one, for God's sake?

Makes you wonder if they really ever did want to repeal or just did all this for show and votes.

I don't wonder. I know exactly which ones genuinely want to repeal and replace, and which ones were just spouting applause lines to get elected.

 

[Weatherman2020]

The 8 step road to affordable healthcare for all:

1. Price transparency and consistency. Require all providers (hospitals, doctors, etc..) to clearly publish their prices by service and by diagnosis in advance, physically and electronically, in both human and machine-readable formats.

2. Stop gouging the uninsured. Require that providers give people who are paying out of their own pocket “most favored nation” status – giving them the best price that the provider offers to any private insurer.

3. Easier approval for generics in the US – to create more price competition in drugs and devices, and bring prices down.

4. FDA drug approval reciprocity with Europe. Once a drug is approved in Europe or the US, it defaults to an approved state across the Atlantic.

5. Tort reform. Cap pain and suffering awards. Reduce some of the drive for defensive medicine.

6. *Increase* medical R&D from the NIH and elsewhere (instead of decreasing it, as the Trump budget proposed). And specifically fund R&D into more cost-effective treatments that can bring the cost of healthcare down.

7. Allow cross-state exchanges.

8. Slowly phase out the employer health care tax credit – the single thing that most ties health insurance to one’s job, and which significantly distorts insurance markets.

Healthcare Improvements Republicans Could Make

No its not, here is an article which contains a lot about medications:

Health at a Glance 2015 | OECD READ edition

I spent years in the medical industry. Getting approval in Europe was much, much easier.

 

[Meane]

How does the so called "price transparency and consistency" work? How can they know the price when they don't know what's wrong with you? And how does that make them any cheaper. Is the problem that people think their treatment is cheap, go and get a bill too big?

 

[dblack]

How does the so called "price transparency and consistency" work? How can they know the price when they don't know what's wrong with you? And how does that make them any cheaper. Is the problem that people think their treatment is cheap, go and get a bill too big?

The problem is that people don't care what they're paying. Because they're not paying.

 

[Cecilie1200]

How does the so called "price transparency and consistency" work? How can they know the price when they don't know what's wrong with you? And how does that make them any cheaper. Is the problem that people think their treatment is cheap, go and get a bill too big?

The problem is that people don't care what they're paying. Because they're not paying.

True. Most people do not even bother to look at their Explanation of Benefits when they receive it, unless they're questioning the amount of their co-pay and deductible. They just shrug, say, "Hey, it got paid", and toss the thing.

 

[debbiedowner]

How does the so called "price transparency and consistency" work? How can they know the price when they don't know what's wrong with you? And how does that make them any cheaper. Is the problem that people think their treatment is cheap, go and get a bill too big?

The problem is that people don't care what they're paying. Because they're not paying.

True. Most people do not even bother to look at their Explanation of Benefits when they receive it, unless they're questioning the amount of their co-pay and deductible. They just shrug, say, "Hey, it got paid", and toss the thing.

You're so right and most don't even look at the summary of benefits included in their policy's much less the provider network. Same people that call for personal responsibility. duh

 

[debbiedowner]

Somewhere over the past 40 years people started demanding co pays for everything when it just used to be you paid until your deductible was met then the insurance company usually paid 80% and you paid 20% up until a certain amount and then you had 100% coverage. Everyone has went co pay crazy over the years. I suppose as I think the co pay thing started with HMO's as I look back.

 

[dblack]

How does the so called "price transparency and consistency" work? How can they know the price when they don't know what's wrong with you? And how does that make them any cheaper. Is the problem that people think their treatment is cheap, go and get a bill too big?

The problem is that people don't care what they're paying. Because they're not paying.

True. Most people do not even bother to look at their Explanation of Benefits when they receive it, unless they're questioning the amount of their co-pay and deductible. They just shrug, say, "Hey, it got paid", and toss the thing.

You're so right and most don't even look at the summary of benefits included in their policy's much less the provider network. Same people that call for personal responsibility. duh

Yes. Ideas of 'personal responsibility' vary wildly. The insurance game is actually paying for the luxury of ignoring your responsibilities.