What kind of reform is need in health care?
How about some changes that benefit the people and lower costs?
Charles Krauthammer, himself trained as a physician, offers a simple, understandable, workable plan without the government bureaucratic build-up and control over who lives and dies.
[T]oday's ruling Democrats propose to fix our extremely high quality (but inefficient and therefore expensive) health care system with 1,000 pages of additional curlicued complexity -- employer mandates, individual mandates, insurance company mandates, allocation formulas, political payoffs and myriad other conjured regulations and interventions -- with the promise that this massive concoction will lower costs.This is all quite mad. It creates a Rube Goldberg system that simply multiplies the current inefficiencies and arbitrariness, thus producing staggering deficits with less choice and lower-quality care.
Instead:
Tort reform eliminating the medical-malpractice system driven by trial lawyers.
Ending employer-paid health insurance.and let each family buy its own.
The [employer-provided] health care benefit exemption is the largest tax break in the entire U.S. budget, costing the government a quarter-trillion dollars annually. It hinders health-insurance security and portability as well as personal independence. If we additionally eliminated the prohibition on buying personal health insurance across state lines, that would inject new and powerful competition that would lower costs for everyone.
As Krauthammer says, Obamacare is the surest route to financial ruin. It's also the way to total control of peoples' lives that Obama socialism wants.
