Thursday, January 31, 2008
Failure of universal health care
Check out the following WSJ editorial from yesterday: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120165320966126977.html. We need to stop this universal health care debate and get back to responsible ideas about how to improve, not fix, our health care situation. This lessson does not bode well for Romney, and this is something on which he actually took a position ... as Governor.
1 comment:
I agree Sonny. I do however think that Romney's position that his HCP was to ensure that free health care was not given to individuals or families who could actually afford it was a sound STATE policy.
The federal government's problem is that they are going way overboard with healthcare reform.
From the Republican standpoint, the fed needs to reduce other entitlements, and drastically reduce spending FIRST! Then they also need to free up opportunity in an individual's or a family's pocketbook through tax reform. THEN they need to see what the gap is on healthcare availability. You don't just jump right in and make a federal mandate for healthcare. It will dry up the economy and force states to comply with something that they should be originating themselves.
From a moderate standpoint, why can't Congress come to the table and take baby steps? Literally. Instead of creating a sweeping measure, Congress should first ensure that all CHILDREN have healthcare. Let that policy ride for a while and see how the federal government does at running that section of the population. Is it cramping our spending? Does it impede too much on individual savings? Does it force states into a deficit? Is it too bureaucratic? If it does work, then try it with the elderly as well, and have the same inquiries.
All we need right now is another trillion dollars from China to create another entitlement that the Federal government is incapable of handling. If they're going to do it, take a small chunk and experiment. The question then is, why not let the state's do that? Let them be the LABORITORIES. Free up budgets, cut spending, cut taxes, enact POSITIVE tort reform centered around mediation and arbitration, and see if more Americans can afford healthcare after that. See also if employers are more willing (after tax reform) to offer healthcare. See if doctors are in less of a pinch from the insurance companies after positive tort reform.
Simultaneously, the government, state and federal, needs to consider the biggest chunk of costly healthcare spending which is caring for terminal and late stage illnesses and diseases: FOCUS ON ways to reduce those expenses by establishing sound PREVENTATIVE and PREEMPTIVE CARE.
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