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1. Open up health insurance so people can shop around, competition drives costs down. We now have a monopoly created by the government, they need to get out of the way.
2. Reduce administrative costs, this accounts for something like 25% of all medical costs, it's an enormous expense. How you go about that specifically I don't know and many of things that would reduce it like a national database of everyone's records isn't going to go over very well.
3. Tort reform.
Those health insurance executives are entitled to charge high premiums so they can get those multi-million dollar salaries, bonuses and stock options. Lower health care cost be damned. This is America, it's about PROFITS.
"Congressional Budget Office estimates released Tuesday predict the health care overhaul will likely cost about $115 billion more in discretionary spending over ten years than the original cost projections.
The additional spending — if approved over the years by Congress — would bring the total estimated cost of the overhaul to over $1 trillion."
Under republicans, insurance corporations will benefit and the common people will suffer. Doctors will lose all say in patient care. Nothing is new.
The only way to cut costs is to get rid of the middleman. The insurance companies can disappear today and the whole entire healthcare field will be better for it.
The only three ways to do this are:
1) Fee for service - with free market setting the price
2) National healthcare system - paid for by taxes
3) Single payer system - paid for by taxes
BUT THATS SOCIALISM!
The irony is so many people are WILLING to pay MORE for healthcare so they can say the healthcare system is a free-enterprise system.
If that is the case why did the Democrats not break the monopoly the insurance companies hold when they had the chance? They would have received Republican support for that.
The American peoiple were too damn stupid, and gullible to give the Democrats the support they needed to get REAL health care reform.
The Republican Party has a vested financial interest in supporting the agenda of the drug companies and they have been richly rewarded for their efforts.
The American peoiple were too damn stupid, and gullible to give the Democrats the support they needed to get REAL health care reform.
The Republican Party has a vested financial interest in supporting the agenda of the drug companies and they have been richly rewarded for their efforts.
People get the government they deserve.
LOL, keep it up. The people are stupid if they don't agree with the Dems....
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