The solutions to lowering health care are obvious and well known. Reduce the costs associated with frivolous litigation - make it very easy for a doctor's insurance company to defend themselves when the charges are very unlikely. How do you tell? Not sure. You don't have to go nuts, just hit the easy pitches, like hen the plaintiff has a long history of filing against doctors for malpractice. Clearly we don't want to go crazy nuts and make it impossible to win a lawsuit for malpractice. But we also don't want to let abusers open a lawsuit then tell the insurance company they will settle for $200. Make patients responsible for a large portion of the costs, thus including them in the cost control process. Health insurance shouldn't be used for every day stuff. If you have to take some drug every day, the costs should not be socialized. Got a broken bone? Maybe you'll choose the cheaper clinic when it opens in an hour rather than the expensive ER. We don't buy insurance to keep our cars nice and shiny and to pay for car washes and fill ups because it would be too expensive - too inefficient. The same can be said for day to day medical expenses. It's a different story when you catch a case of flesh eating bacteria or brain cancer that'll run into 6 digits - that's rare, and that's worth spreading the risk around just like we do house fires. The fact that we will not pursue these obvious and well known ideas is because of special interests, socialists and a list of people who want to get something for nothing. Too bad the GOP bailed on their principles, they could clean up on this issue.
are white people who work for themselves going to be part of this universal health care deal? Because I would sure like to stop paying for my families medical insurance premiums.