RealCalConservative
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- Nov 12, 2016
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I try to think about our healthcare problem as if I were put in charge to solve it. I think that Obamacare has many problems and is currently on pace to be repealed or significantly changed.
The problems that I see are:
Medicaid is too expensive because there are too many patients. People with completely free government health insurance abuse the system.
Healthcare costs overall are too expensive
Private insurance is too expensive
We shouldn't have to pay more taxes to pay for these expenses
If people don't have health insurance, you shouldn't lose your livelihood because you get into a car accident or get cancan we
We have a model for socialized medicine. It's called the VA and its an epic disaster
Illegal immigrants shouldn't be receiving federal tax dollars to pay for their healthcare
Socialized medicine limits innovation that is driven by our capitalist driven healthcare system as well as limiting physician/nursing income potentials that drive some of our brightest young minds into those respective fields
Poor primary care delivery models that lead to more specialist driven healthcare which increases tests and costs
My proposals include:
A total repeal of Obamacare
Ending state line barriers for health insurance companies to promote more competition and lower premium costs
Adding a co-pay to Medicaid and Medicare patients doctor visits and prescriptions. A co-pay minimum of $5 per visit would limit unnecessary physician, urgent care, and ER visits. Also, that co-pay increases with patients who are on the fringe income limits of Medicaid as well as those wealthier Medicare patients
Adding a co-pay to medications not on the Walmart/Target $4 dollar lists much to the same degree as above
If states like California want to cover illegal immigrants' healthcare costs then they may do so but only with funds collected solely from state taxes.
My biggest and most troubling concern is that I believe that everyone should have some sort of disaster health care coverage. I call this idea my Americare idea. I think that if you get cancer or shatter your leg in a fall or get into a car accident where you spend a month in the ICU, you shouldn't have to pay $100,000 over the rest of your life. Now I know that this opens the door for a single payer system on down the line, but I believe that it solves multiple problems. It allows insurance companies to offer reasonable rates because they can offer gap coverage plans that fills in for everything outside of epic disasters, and it also allows them to refuse the expensive pre-existing conditions that has so rocked Obamacare. Americare is basically a government run insurance company that cost controls the healthcare disasters, and I don't believe that the incompetencies of government run insurance will come to light so much because the overall patient load will be fairly low. Hopefully, this repackaging of government run healthcare does not curtail the brilliant healthcare innovations within our capitalist system.
Increase public awareness as to what primary care actually is and encourage and incentivize doctors and nurses to pursue careers in primary rather than specialized care
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The problems that I see are:
Medicaid is too expensive because there are too many patients. People with completely free government health insurance abuse the system.
Healthcare costs overall are too expensive
Private insurance is too expensive
We shouldn't have to pay more taxes to pay for these expenses
If people don't have health insurance, you shouldn't lose your livelihood because you get into a car accident or get cancan we
We have a model for socialized medicine. It's called the VA and its an epic disaster
Illegal immigrants shouldn't be receiving federal tax dollars to pay for their healthcare
Socialized medicine limits innovation that is driven by our capitalist driven healthcare system as well as limiting physician/nursing income potentials that drive some of our brightest young minds into those respective fields
Poor primary care delivery models that lead to more specialist driven healthcare which increases tests and costs
My proposals include:
A total repeal of Obamacare
Ending state line barriers for health insurance companies to promote more competition and lower premium costs
Adding a co-pay to Medicaid and Medicare patients doctor visits and prescriptions. A co-pay minimum of $5 per visit would limit unnecessary physician, urgent care, and ER visits. Also, that co-pay increases with patients who are on the fringe income limits of Medicaid as well as those wealthier Medicare patients
Adding a co-pay to medications not on the Walmart/Target $4 dollar lists much to the same degree as above
If states like California want to cover illegal immigrants' healthcare costs then they may do so but only with funds collected solely from state taxes.
My biggest and most troubling concern is that I believe that everyone should have some sort of disaster health care coverage. I call this idea my Americare idea. I think that if you get cancer or shatter your leg in a fall or get into a car accident where you spend a month in the ICU, you shouldn't have to pay $100,000 over the rest of your life. Now I know that this opens the door for a single payer system on down the line, but I believe that it solves multiple problems. It allows insurance companies to offer reasonable rates because they can offer gap coverage plans that fills in for everything outside of epic disasters, and it also allows them to refuse the expensive pre-existing conditions that has so rocked Obamacare. Americare is basically a government run insurance company that cost controls the healthcare disasters, and I don't believe that the incompetencies of government run insurance will come to light so much because the overall patient load will be fairly low. Hopefully, this repackaging of government run healthcare does not curtail the brilliant healthcare innovations within our capitalist system.
Increase public awareness as to what primary care actually is and encourage and incentivize doctors and nurses to pursue careers in primary rather than specialized care
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