Dear
yidnar
the best way I know is to AGREE with them.
Then add to what they are saying by promoting
the SOLUTION that backs up what they are lobbying for.
A1. for example, if they want "universal care"
A2. You say YES, and the way to get to universal care
is to set up health care cooperatives. This will cut the
costs so much, you don't need to legislate to stop high
profit insurance. You can go ahead and negotiate
medicare pricing directly without any further legislation needed.
B1. if they want free education and health care
B2. You say YES, by reforming the prison system,
and converting them into medical schools and
teaching hospitals, we can treat the sick to prevent
crime, and the money saved can pay for education where
doctors and nurses in training can serve in public health.
Then ask them do they support Spiritual Healing that
can cure mental and criminal illness for FREE in order
to prevent crime, so taxes can go toward health care instead.
C1. if they want programs to help immigrants instead of a wall
C2. You say YES, liberals and Democrats should fund education
and jobs for immigrants and let Conservatives and Republicans
fund the wall and military security. If the right wants their wall,
then the left should get to defund the death penalty and pay
for treatment centers and teaching hospitals on the border
to serve the prison and immigrant populations.
Screw health care cooperatives, most people do now want to depend on Christian or join Christian clubs or join any club.. While you pray to God for healing, most of us realists prefer the medical community.
NOPE
Penelope this isn't a Christian health share ministry.
it's a secular nonprofit similar to Habitat for Humanity
where people can work together to build their own clinic center
and provider networks.
And YES, the cooperatives are getting the MEDICAL COMMUNITY
to support and participate in the coops because they get paid
directly without having to mess with insurance claims and nonpayments/collections.
The coop pays them directly, so it saves costs and improves services
for both the physicians and the patients.
NOTE: the nonprofit I cited in Houston already has licensing set up
through the State of Texas to operate statewide, and has the largest
Surgical Group in Houston signed on. All the other providers they have
invited either agreed to serve on retainer or agreed to be within the
network where members can still get discounted Medicare rates.
Very few turn down the invitation, usually if they already are maxed
out serving a full patient base who already have good paying relations.
These are professional hospitals like St. Luke's and Memorial
that agreed to serve the coop clients.
The other group I already heard about on the radio is
the Atlas MD coop in Wichita KS. I think that is for profit
and they still work more cost effectively than trying to
mandate and manage costs and services through govt.
The coop in Houston is nonprofit and I've introduced
the head founder to various nonprofit community
groups in order to help those neighborhoods start
organizing a stable structure to build their own jobs
and health program network instead of not being
able to afford high profit insurance.
Where the health share programs may fit in:
if people get the membership in Coops for the Medicare
pricing discounts, then join a health share ministry that
pays their bills, the cost will be half as much to pay for.
So maybe that way, they can skip on buying the additional
hospital indemnity and the catastrophic if they combine
coop discounts with health share funding to pay the costs
that would still be minimalized at medicare rates by the coop plans.