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What creative ways would you offer the government pay for Health-Care???
1. Legalize and Tax Pot/Cocaine/etc and any other drug (except LSD/Acid) certain drugs rightly deserve to be illegal
2. Tax unhealthy behavior (cigarettes and alcohol significantly)
3. Get rid of Social Security (Personally, i want it to end, but given the choice of UHC and a government annuity plan, I'd gladly see the annuity plan go to the wayside)
4. Just for bonus remove crop subsidies ( and let some of those farmers grow pot)
5. Release non-violent prisoners that are in jail for selling or doing pot (would knock our prison population down from 1.5 to just under 300k)
I can't speak in detail since I don't have any info but it does seem to me that providing health care to everyone could be partially paid for by eliminating many of the social programs currently being funded. Let the charities, churchs and individuals deal with personal and/or private issues and let the government deal with things that benefit the country as a whole.
Instead of just gifting free health care to all illegals, charge them an entrance fee like Costa Rica does. I think for $10,000 you can become a citizen and opt to take the government plan or pay more for the private plan. Why should the USA provide free anything to non citizens? Why should the taxpayers include them and pay for their care?
Tax booze and the porn industry.
Provide the citizens of the USA catastrophic help only, no "boo boo's and bandaids care."
6) START TAXING those illegal immigrants who leech off our system
In other words make them citizens, give them legal social security ids, and start taking their money like the rest of us? Yea, i'm in agreement with you on this one!!!
Encourage cost and quality efficiency in the health care system:
Starting by not building any more general hospitals--hospitals should be for emergency and intensive care only. Acute care, surgery, L&D, and other procedures can be done by stand-alone specialty clinics who do only those procedures. You can ensure cost efficiency and quality this way.
Second, eliminate fee for service-type pricing systems for medical care. Bundle common services (anesthesia, radiology, tests, medications, etc) related to certain procedures for a single price.
Third, encourage new, patient-centered technologies like home dialysis, remote electronic monitoring, etc. Let the patient do as much as possible for themselves in treatment and recovery at home, with assistance from trained home health professionals and telemedicine.
Fourth: Move forward ASAP with the Electronic Patient Record. Countless dollars and hours can be saved if every patient carries with them a swipe card with all their data on allergies, screening results, medical history, etc. that can be accessed in any medical setting 24/7.
Obama has to pay $20 for every "uh" and "um" that comes out of his mouth.
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