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Originally Posted by Gozer
Please expand on what you consider proper reform to be.
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Well, assuming that we won't see a state run public option....
1. Retain private insurance; no government option.
2. Require everyone who is able to afford it to buy it. Subsidize those who can't. Penalize those who won't. Subsidized plan is "no frills" and may involve rationing.
3. End employer-provided health care. Provide additional compensation equivalent to existing health care costs to employees. Individuals pay for their own insurance.
4. Limit liabilities. Drive down costs associated with lawsuit avoidance.
5. Require insurers to cover those with pre-existing conditions with surcharges not to exceed 100%. For unusual cases, create an assigned risk pool to distribute risk evenly among insurers. For statistically exceptional costs arising from these cases, allow insurers a compensating tax deduction.
6. Eliminate/forbid state regulation of medical insurance. Increase competition by allowing people to buy insurance across state lines.
7. People retain the right to go outside their plan and buy services on the open market.
8. Develop national health information infrastructure to maintain accurate health records on all people. Government funds, provides infrastructure; insurers manage data. Government FORBIDDEN to access patient data. Individuals able to review their own health records.
9. Tort reform.
10. Shoot everyone who protests, thereby eliminating half the population, thereby eliminating most of the costs associated with healthcare.
11. Burn down Washington DC. The stench coming from that place probably makes 10 million people sick and they are only a burden on the system.
12. Elect me for President!
13. ARRRGGGG!!!!
