Real Health Care - For All
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1. Remove state barriers to real competition. If there are 20 choices of insurance companies for every American, prices will be tight and service will improve. Companies will go out of business and others must pick up the pieces. How many choices do you have now? Few or none really, if you get it through your employer. Politicians and the regulations and laws they pass out one to placate the consumer one to placate the lobbyist actually enrich and reduce by providing protection from real competition to the insurance companies and other health providers.
Mr Obama, tear down those walls!
2. Take insurance out of the work place. Put it on the corner next to Starbucks, in the mall next to GameStop or in the office building next to your House Representatives.
Equality for US corporations versus foreign corporations.
3. Own your own health insurance policy like you do your car insurance and renters insurance or homeowners insurance. If you are alive and drive, you must have Policy One and minimum auto insurance.
Congress: Require every qualified insurance company to offer Policy One as a mandated purchase by everyone with a Social Security number and citizenship and to everyother person legally in the US. Policy one will have no problematic exemption and will be priced by individual insurance companies just as they will offer their own price and designed policies as alternatives.
4. Reform Congressional deceit, keep us off their teat, regulate well for a change, and do not compete.
Another Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in your continually politicized control we do not need. Referring to 535 overpaid, over empowered, self centered, conflicted dissemblers we have a hard time removing from office because incumbents write the laws.
Find a way to get real competition, efficiency and importantly, centralized data for the knowledge and innovation benefits it will stimulate.
Not a quasi queasy sleazy Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac style competition that became a monopolistic duopoly beating out banks and savings and loans due to their tie to the government and the conflicted, porky politicians. Look what that got us. A path to second world status. But only after Banks and Wall Street found a way to “compete” with the government in the last 10 years. Took them 30 years to get there.
Coulda, woulda, we will wish we hadda.
Comment by Richard Cochrane on 12 October 2009:
Chief: You’re being logical again.
The debate is NOT about healthcare it is about social engineering.
I listened to a 30-year old yesterday expplain he didn’t have health insurance because it cost too much, and he was healthy - that applies to 15 million or a third of so-called uninsured; a third are foreigners (legal or not) and a third can’t afford the premiums.
This about 15 million or maybe 30 million of 308 million let;s say 5-7% that ain’t a crisis its about bigger government and social engineering.
Comment by Chief Hypocrite on 12 October 2009:
Must agree on bigger government and more control for social engineering as the real goal. If real reform were wanted no one could honestly promote a public option to keep the insurance companies honest without giggling.