Healthcare Solutions
Posted December 7th, 2007 by agreene
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On my way to work this morning I was listening to XM (the POTUS channel), and they were interviewing a Doctor (I forget his name) about helthcare. I did manage to write down the URL for his website.
I thought I would share this here, what are people's opinions on this system?
"What if we simplified the financing of medical care so that you the patient controlled the money? Instead of having your employer pay $700 per month (on average) for insurance, your employer could purchase a high deductible insurance plan to cover catastrophic problems and put the rest of the money in a Health Savings Account (HSA). This money would now be yours to spend as you see fit on care. If you didn t spend it this year, you could roll it over to future years and save it to pay copays, deductibles and medical expenses that your insurer refuses to cover. The doctors would no longer work for your insurance company. They would now work for you. Doctors who figure out how to provide better service, lower pricing and better care would begin to flourish and the ones who continued to herd patients through their offices like cattle would be struggling to find work. In business parlance, patients would become income sources instead of cost centers in medical offices, you don t have to be a business genius to know that income sources get treated better than cost centers."
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Of course
John Stossel did a show on Heathcare months ago, and Whole Foods Corporation is using the power of it's employee's to control costs through HSAs. Patients actually ask doctor's for price lists, and shop for the best products. Whole Food's healthcare costs are DROPPING in relation to other companies.
Another interesting phenomenon, is that inside dept stores such as Walmart, one can get a 50 buck medical exam. The free market is actually filling the void.
The fundamental problem with healthcare is that it has been totally removed from the economics of the free market. This is why it's so costly, and quality of service is degrading. The sames reasons toilet paper was so hard to get, and so poor in the Soviet Union, are the same reasons healthcare is in shambles in the US. Command economics DOES NOT WORK.
And Hillary is selling government run Universal heathcare, when medicaid in losing billions in fraud.
It's no accident that the insurance companies are up to their teeth in Hillary donations.
America is sick, call a doctor! Dr. Ron Paul.