That is a silly question in general. To think one whole political party is against everything and the people is comical to me. I will oblige you and talk a little about health care. Our health care system is if not the best in the world at the very least one of the best. Why in the world would you try to limit the people choice or access to it? How is that against the people? I am not 100% up to date on all the bills floating around on Capital hill right now but they all seem to miss the target on health care reform. It seems to me to be insurance reform or getting the uninsured covered. You might think this is the same but they are two very different issues. We all can agree that health care insurance premiums have gone up substantially. The question has to be why? Is it the greedy insurance companies? Is it the greedy doctors? Is it the greedy uninsureds that pick cable TV over health insurance and then use the emergency room for the sniffles? Is it the greedy angioplasty patient that still smokes a pack a day? Is it the greedy government that pays $.20 on the $1.00 to doctors who see Medicaid patients? Or is it the greedy lawyer that signs on to a asinine law suit? All these factors and others add cost to healthcare and can be addressed with out limiting choice. If your goal is to insurer the uninsured then you have to start a costly social program.
Here is my plan for healthcare and insurance reform:
1. Give insurance companies and/or the insured’s companies a tax break for giving customers incentives for becoming heather.
2. Give insurance companies the right to sell policies across state lines.
3. Give tax rebate on private insurance policies.
4. Make it that any lawsuit on a doctor has to have another doctor sign a affidavit that they feel it is not frivolous before it can be filed.
5. Expand Medicaid and/or Medicare to accept low income and the uninsurable.
6. Overhaul Medicaid and Medicare to prevent fraud, promote a healthy life style, and pay for results and not by the procedure.
