Posts Tagged ‘summit’
A few days ago the President announced he wants a bipartisan meeting to discuss healthcare among other topics. I don’t know!? He claims it will be to discuss openly and hear all sides and hear different suggestions, plans etc.
After he made that announcement he said the healthcare bill, that most of us don’t want and are wary of, will be the starting point. That sure does not seem very open.
Take all of the 2,700 pages of that bill and all of the copies and you can probably burn them all and heat a lot of homes for a day or so. Put it to good use!
Start that whole process over again and do the entire things in pieces that make sense and would accomplish what everyone (?) wants without spending any money. How?
1 – Start with opening up competition in the insurance industry by dropping the restrictions for crossing state borders. Put that into law, and ONLY THAT, and watch costs. They will probably drop much the same way that auto insurance dropped.
2 – Eliminate ALL coverage for ILLEGAL INVADERS of our country. These people are draining the resources of healthcare providers all over the country. Gee, I do believe that would save some money.
3 – Stop Drug company Television ads. – You must have seen some of these ads. They offer you a drug to stop one thing but the side effects can kill you. Say what? These are dangerous. No TV ads, medicine prices drop and medicine will be more available to more people.
3 –Cap on malpractice awards. Some of the awards are justified but maybe the amounts are not. If this is capped the insurance the doctors have to purchase (passing that on to patients) will cost less thereby reducing doctor costs – help more people.
4 –Reduce fraud in Medicare & Medicaid saving money. I have read and heard of huge payments being made for people that passed away fifteen or more years ago. I am pretty sure those people are not using the services. The last time I looked, October 2009, Medicare fraud is costing $60,000,000,000.00 per year. Medicaid dollars are kept by individual states but the numbers I have seen are staggering. Reduce this and guess what – MONEY SAVED and more people covered!
5 – Make English our National language. Now at first glance people think “what has that have to do with reducing costs for healthcare?”.
A reasonable question. When was the last time you read instructions for medications in 2, 3, 4, 5 languages. It seems to me that it costs something to translate and print all that stuff. Another thing, my blood pressure would not rise when trying to find the English part of the triple fold out paper with print so small (because of all the languages?) because it would all be English.
You know, read these again and think about each one. Some side affects might even be JOB CREATION!
THAT IS WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN AT THE SUMMIT!!
And that’s my view.