Guest Post by Scott Adams
Congress just proved something that we all suspected: They are the wrong tool for fixing health care. The topic is too complicated, the politics are too corrosive, and the money interests are too strong. That’s why citizens will step in and fill the gap with their own proposals. I expect to see a number of citizen-created health care proposals emerge soon. To that end, I thought I would get the ball rolling by framing the problem in this short 4-minute video. This is how any large business would approach the problem of spiraling healthcare costs. Here is the graphic from the video clip:
The advantage American citizens have in 2017, that we never had before, is a populist president who can sell the bejeezus out of a health care plan if someone could come up with one that makes sense. But for that to happen, Congress first had to do a hard faceplant in the asphalt, to show the country they are not the right tool for the job. That phase is complete. Time for the next phase.
It is neither good, nor bad.
Congress hasn’t failed, Congress has refused.
Step one: prevent companies from selling poisoned food.
Less poison equals less disease equals less health care.
…prevent companies from selling poisoned food.”
Don’t buy it; no intervention required.
Free Market, without government collusion and enforcement of monopoly practices. State “con” laws. There, done….
Eliminate all insurance companies. Medicare, Medicaid, VA (except for injured vets). Government sponsored catastrophic insurance based on income and family size. Premiums based on AGI minus FPL. Maximum premium $20K. Maximum OOP $12K. Out of Pocket costs based on AGI with government picking up bills for anything more than OOP for ALL medically necessary services. Mandatory annual physical and lab work paid for OOP for early detection. Creates competition among doctors and labs for your business. Power of government negotiation on all services and prescriptions. 10% surcharge for failure to get annual work. 10% surcharge for uncorrected destructive behavior. Eliminates every problem with existing insurances.
“Government sponsored…”
“…government picking up bills…”
“Power of government negotiation…”
No, no, no no, no, and fuck no.
Pay your own way. Purchase free market insurance to cover catastrophes like cancer or accidents. Charity organizations to cover the indigent.
Too many people now.
Bullshit. What you mean is there are too many people in the Free Shit Army that will have a chimpout if the cookie jar gets taken away.
Other than knowing that the bill in the Senate failed,I have not not been following this lately.
I’m a lurker on moveon.org and they are taking credit for the bill failing.
Did the bill fail because the Republicans were gutting O’care and liberal Reps would not support it or did it fail because liberal Reps were keeping too much of O’care and conservative Reps would not support it?
a populist president who can sell the bejeezus out of a health care plan
LOL. Good luck with that, seeing as how he did virtually nothing to help sell the one that just failed.
Mad Dog Meathead ,you are on a roll today.Keep it up!!