Quote Originally Posted by Devils Horse View Post
Never claimed to have all the answers, but I'm pretty sure rushing through a bill requiring people to buy health insurance when you don't have the authority to do so ain't it. Unless of course you're one of the 12,000 new government IRS agents being hired to enforce it. BTW, I too have always paid for health insurance.

No system is going to 100% "solve this mess" as you put it. IMO the lion's share of Americans had the best system possible till the current administration broke it so they could say they provided coverage for everyone. The system we had was far from perfect, but doing nothing would have been way better for us than federal Obamacare.

Government run healthcare for the masses is already proven to marginalize care for the masses. Look at England and other countries who have it. Anyone in those countries who can afford it comes here for serious medical procedures, so maybe our system wasn't such a 'mess' after all.

We are taxed enough already, and I refuse to accept that we need to pay more to solve the so called healthcare mess while a bloated federal government pisses away our tax dollars and ignores the constitution.

My solutions:

Create a simple flat tax system.

Eliminate the IRS, FCCA, DHS, Endowment for the Arts, DOA, and countless other federal agencies.

Cut federal domestic and foreign spending by 25% across the board.

Take part of the hundreds of billions of dollars left over and create a federally subsidized insurance program for those who truly cannot afford healthcare. Make non catastrophic medical debt exempt from bankruptcy for anyone making $50,000 or more a year.

Use the rest of the hundreds of billions to fund medicare/medicaid and difference in income and outgo for social security.

Pay out not one dime of foreign aid to anyone until after said programs are fully funded and national debt is paid off.

Now let's hear your solution.
Wow!! exempt medicals bill from bankrupcy. Pretty cold. How bout if you do not have health insurance or pay cash up from you don't get in. This would surely shorten the lines and waiting times.

I don't see how this system has even changed in the last 12 months. I went to my Dr in Dec....no change. He accepted my insurance, gave me a checkup, prescribed medicine for strep infection. So this Adm. broke the system????

If you have insurance now how are you paying more. Say your premium went up this year? well it has gone uop every year for the last 25 years with or without health care reforms.

The whole process of insurance is that groups share risks. Since we do not deny care to those without insurance the cost is spread with those that pay, those thsat do not pay and those insured.

So given a chance health reforms may satiblize costs. With the risks spread more evenly insurance will be more afordable. Listen to the insurance actuaries they will tell you the wider a risk is spread the more stable the plan and the lower the premium.

Malpractice lawsuits are not to blame and limiting malpractice claims will only furter help insurance Industry. Talk about government medeling!!! Taking a resonsibility out of the hands of a jury to a regulation!!. One of the reasons we get good health care is the threat of suit if it is performed neglegently. So lets see hospitaly tags wrong arm for amputation and as a result we fine them $100.00 and ask they be more careful.

Lets just let insurance cancel you the day after you have a catotophic diagnosis. No Govenment medeling. May as well scrap all banking regulations as this is also government medeling too.

Its too early to panic as you seem to be. If problems surface with these reforms they can be amended/changed. Has a lot of good ideas, I for one am hoping some take hold and work as they are intended.