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Without looking, can you say what the Republican Party's plan for healthcare reform is? I bet you cannot.
I think most right wingers know as far as, "Repeal ObamaCare."
Okay. Then what?
Let's not make this another topic attacking ObamaCare. ObamaCare should only be mentioned to serve as a contrast to alternate proposed solutions.
Let's focus on solutions we think will work.
Anyone can attack. It takes real effort to come up with solutions.
Let's not make this another topic attacking ObamaCare. ObamaCare should only be mentioned to serve as a contrast to alternate proposed solutions.
Let's focus on solutions we think will work.
Anyone can attack. It takes real effort to come up with solutions.
Propose, and be prepared to defend.
Without looking, can you say what the Republican Party's plan for healthcare reform is? I bet you cannot.
I think most right wingers know as far as, "Repeal ObamaCare."
Okay. Then what?
We spend $2.5 trillion on healthcare in America. Costs have been going up, up, up, and up.
I personally detest ObamaCare. It was classic bait and switch. The argument was made along these lines:
1. We must do something.
2. This (ObamaCare) is something.
3. We must do this.
The problem is, ObamaCare won't bend down the cost curve. Bait and switch.
So what will?
Let's not make this another topic attacking ObamaCare. ObamaCare should only be mentioned to serve as a contrast to alternate proposed solutions.
Let's focus on solutions we think will work.
Anyone can attack. It takes real effort to come up with solutions.
Propose, and be prepared to defend.
You base your position on the assumption that everyone thinks health care is a federal issue. To me, it is not.
Unless you amend the consitution the government cannot be in the health care business, which is the end goal of all this Obamacare confusion. The single payer crowd then gets to point at it and say, Regulations dont work!!! We need government healthcare (federal) Now!!
We spend $2.5 trillion on healthcare in America. Costs have been going up, up, up, and up.
I personally detest ObamaCare. It was classic bait and switch. The argument was made along these lines:
1. We must do something.
2. This (ObamaCare) is something.
3. We must do this.
The problem is, ObamaCare won't bend down the cost curve. Bait and switch.
So what will?
The market will.
We spend $2.5 trillion on healthcare in America. Costs have been going up, up, up, and up.
I personally detest ObamaCare. It was classic bait and switch. The argument was made along these lines:
1. We must do something.
2. This (ObamaCare) is something.
3. We must do this.
The problem is, ObamaCare won't bend down the cost curve. Bait and switch.
So what will?
The market will.
The left will never accept that. IN their minds "the market" is filled with GREEDY EEVUL CORPORATIONS intent on screwing people. While gov't is filled with well meaning knowledageable bureaucrats who are on our side.
Without looking, can you say what the Republican Party's plan for healthcare reform is? I bet you cannot.
I think most right wingers know as far as, "Repeal ObamaCare."
Okay. Then what?
A repeal of Obamacare would in it of itself be an improvement even without a plan. Your question begs a false alternative. Indeed, let the states do what they want with their own states and allow people to vote with their feet. Indeed, the reason why Democrats want a national healthcare system is because if any one state did it people and businesses would flee.
Without looking, can you say what the Republican Party's plan for healthcare reform is? I bet you cannot.
I think most right wingers know as far as, "Repeal ObamaCare."
Okay. Then what?
A repeal of Obamacare would in it of itself be an improvement even without a plan. Your question begs a false alternative. Indeed, let the states do what they want with their own states and allow people to vote with their feet. Indeed, the reason why Democrats want a national healthcare system is because if any one state did it people and businesses would flee.
The status quo was bankrupting us. We cannot do nothing.
A repeal of Obamacare would in it of itself be an improvement even without a plan. Your question begs a false alternative. Indeed, let the states do what they want with their own states and allow people to vote with their feet. Indeed, the reason why Democrats want a national healthcare system is because if any one state did it people and businesses would flee.
The status quo was bankrupting us. We cannot do nothing.
Government involvement in healthcare was bankrupting us so the solution is more government involvement?
I will start.
I propose we buy our health insurance the same way we buy our life, auto, and home insurance.
Under the current system, most people get their insurance through employer-sponsored health insurance (ESHI). If you work for a small company, then your insurance pool is very small and therefore has little bargaining power. Also, if someone in your company uses a lot of healthcare resources, the premiums for every employee go up radically.
Your choices of options under the ESHI system are very limited. You have virtually no say in what plan you ultimately end up with.
Even worse, if you lose your job, you lose your health insurance at the same time. Can anyone actually afford COBRA? I don't think so.
ESHI bends the cost of healthcare in America up.
In the insurance arena, most health insurance providers are geographically limited by law. This has the result of their own bargaining power being limited when negotiating with healthcare providers.
In contrast, when I buy my life, auto, or home insurance, I buy it from an insurance provider whose market is not geographically limited. And I have a wide range of insurance providers from which to choose. That wide competition gives me leverage.
If I lose my job, my life, auto, and home insurance don't automatically cease.
What's more, I get discounts the longer I stay with my life, auto, or home insurance. I also get bundling discounts, and I get to choose which options I do or do not want.
Many states require I have auto insurance, and so that is as much a necessity as health insurance. Yet you don't see a big move for employers to provide it, or for the government to pay for it.
But the most perverse thing of all is that the government gets to write the rules for its competition!
Think about it. The government is in the health insurance business. And it gets to write the rules for everyone else in the health insurance business. How could this not work to the government's advanatage? How could the government not end up completely skewing the results in its favor, even if it meant driving up healthcare costs for everyone?
If you owned a business, would you be okay with your biggest competitor writing the rules you have to follow while your competitor wrote separate rules for themselves?
One more solution: Raise the retirement age. When Social Security was established, less than 6 percent of Americans were over the age of 65. When Medicare was established, 9 percent of Americans were over the age of 65.
Today, over 13 percent of Americans are over the age of 65. The entitlement burden for Social Security has more than doubled, and the entitlement burden for Medicare is rapidly approaching that benchmark.
We are living decades longer than our ancestors, it makes absolutely no sense we are retiring the same age they did.
By raising the eligibility age by five years, we would be contributing five years longer into the Treasury, and withdrawing five years less from it.
A repeal of Obamacare would in it of itself be an improvement even without a plan. Your question begs a false alternative. Indeed, let the states do what they want with their own states and allow people to vote with their feet. Indeed, the reason why Democrats want a national healthcare system is because if any one state did it people and businesses would flee.
The status quo was bankrupting us. We cannot do nothing.
Government involvement in healthcare was bankrupting us so the solution is more government involvement?