D's say that the R's "want to kill old people" and the R's say "the D's are going to tax us into Oblivion to pay for it all." I say that they've all got their hearts in the right place but have apparently lost their minds.
Yes, we do need national health care reform, 45,000,000 to 50,000,000?( the number seems to go up every day!)people don't have health care. Here're a few ideas to fix the problem.
1.) standardize Insurance/HMO regulations.
Currently, states have different insurance regulations, in California for example, there are supposedly only six different Health insurance providers able to do business there. That is insane! if you change this to a national standard and open up ALL of the states to the thirteen hundred plus Insurance providers then you have potential for 300,000,000 customers( instead of the 5 or 6 million that you could have in Colorado, based on our population numbers) this would enable the cost per customer to be Drastically reduced.(instead of adding thousands to the cost annually. Politicians, are you Listening?)
2.) Price caps.
Put price caps on All drugs,lab tests,procedures, hospital stays/visits and equipment. Many of the other nations w/ national health care(that the left loves to drag out as an example) have price caps in effect, If big drug company"A" has a drug that is too expensive then the government tells them " you can sell it for this much, or less, if you don't like our terms then you get to go away and drug company"B" can sell a generic version cheaper."( check out some drug prices next time you go to Mexico on vacation) By putting price caps in place, this would also drive costs way down(Oops, wait a second, this would mean smaller campaign contributions to the politicians, we may see them on street corners w/ cardboard signs"less money donated, my Mercedes needs a wash and a detail, please help?,god bless!")
Put price caps on All drugs,lab tests,procedures, hospital stays/visits and equipment. Many of the other nations w/ national health care(that the left loves to drag out as an example) have price caps in effect, If big drug company"A" has a drug that is too expensive then the government tells them " you can sell it for this much, or less, if you don't like our terms then you get to go away and drug company"B" can sell a generic version cheaper."( check out some drug prices next time you go to Mexico on vacation) By putting price caps in place, this would also drive costs way down(Oops, wait a second, this would mean smaller campaign contributions to the politicians, we may see them on street corners w/ cardboard signs"less money donated, my Mercedes needs a wash and a detail, please help?,god bless!")
3.) Fraud and abuse.
Cut out waste,fraud & abuse. I saw on the evening new a while back( a month or so?) that the government estimated that there was almost a billion dollars in Medicare & Medicaid Fraud & abuse annually, If someone gets caught doing this they should lose everything!( the federal drug forfeiture act lets law enforcement take all of your things if, for example, Joe Sixpack Jr. is selling crack from out of the basement and Joe Sr. doesn't know about it 'till the cops bust Jr., the cops can take the house &everything on the notion that much, or all of it was the result of drug money.)
Many of you might think that would be a little harsh but let me say this, I've had friend that were busted & convicted for much smaller crimes & as a result, when they got out of jail they were broke & had lost EVERYTHING., I'm sure that many of you also have had people in the same situation. Somebody who has stolen millions should lose everything too.
If we did at least these three things then we probably all could afford health care,but, don't hold your breath, this stuff would cost our friends in Washington D.C. a lot, yet, they wouldn't cost us(the people who really matter, much at all.
tune in tomorrow for more on how we can have health care reform. have a nice day and see you on the Beach.
Cut out waste,fraud & abuse. I saw on the evening new a while back( a month or so?) that the government estimated that there was almost a billion dollars in Medicare & Medicaid Fraud & abuse annually, If someone gets caught doing this they should lose everything!( the federal drug forfeiture act lets law enforcement take all of your things if, for example, Joe Sixpack Jr. is selling crack from out of the basement and Joe Sr. doesn't know about it 'till the cops bust Jr., the cops can take the house &everything on the notion that much, or all of it was the result of drug money.)
Many of you might think that would be a little harsh but let me say this, I've had friend that were busted & convicted for much smaller crimes & as a result, when they got out of jail they were broke & had lost EVERYTHING., I'm sure that many of you also have had people in the same situation. Somebody who has stolen millions should lose everything too.
If we did at least these three things then we probably all could afford health care,but, don't hold your breath, this stuff would cost our friends in Washington D.C. a lot, yet, they wouldn't cost us(the people who really matter, much at all.
tune in tomorrow for more on how we can have health care reform. have a nice day and see you on the Beach.
