tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post4657603598558238597..comments2024-03-29T09:25:32.972-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Trumpcare: a "systems" approach?Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-21004934072171660812017-04-07T06:00:01.753-05:002017-04-07T06:00:01.753-05:00Separate the delivery of medical services from how...<em>Separate the delivery of medical services from how that delivery is paid for with an impenetrable wall because they're two completely different things.</em><br /><br />Absolutely.Tim Newmanhttp://www.desertsun.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-2909969899480995962017-04-07T02:57:04.587-05:002017-04-07T02:57:04.587-05:00The discussion portion has not yet ended, so it...The discussion portion has not yet ended, so it's difficult to determine what the action plan will be.<br /><br />Choice 1: Medical insurance<br />Choice 2: Medical services paid by someone else<br />Choice 3: You're on your own. <br /><br /><i>Medical insurance</i> is what it sounds like: an insurance plan that operates like automobile insurance and homeowners' insurance - reasonable protection against catastrophic expense but nothing toward daily routine maintenance. And, just like homeowners' insurance has different aspects of coverage (Florida needs hurricane damage coverage but Montana doesn't) with different coverage costs and deductibles, so should medical insurance.<br /><br /><i>Medical coverage paid by someone else</i> is what was actually delivered when everyone advertised <i>medical insurance</i>. We have WWII federal government price and wage controls to thank for this, another example of why the fed dot gov should be herded back into its Constitutional corral. <br /><br /><i>You're on your own</i> is the Democrat Party's <i>raison d'etre</i> for existence to prevent. Any instance of individual responsibility is to be crushed and the word "fair" bandied about recklessly to demand universally-applied, ridiculously expensive incompetence funded by anyone with more money than the poverty level. <br /><br />One might say the better solution - there is no "ideal" or "best" one - is a cafeteria-style offering, available everywhere to everyone without restriction where the individual selects the coverage, both in type and degree, best suited to their particular need. Crowd sourcing might be able to do this better than the zombies on Capitol Hill, especially if the Crowd can drag state legislatures along. <br /><br />Separate the <i>delivery of medical services</i> from <i>how that delivery is paid for</i> with an impenetrable wall because they're two completely different things. It's not unreasonable to provide some assistance to the financially infirm - we're not a country that lets people suffer because they're short a few bucks, nor should we be - but at the heart of that discussion and the resultant action should be complete price transparency for medical services; if I'm charged with making, or perhaps just "allowed to," my own decisions on medical services, I should have clear and simple access to what a particular medical service offered by a particular service provider entails and exactly what it will cost. I comparison shop auto and home repairs and when I find a suitable mechanic or contractor I don't give him a blank check, why should my doctor get one? <br /><br />AlphonseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-2747103729770894542017-04-06T16:31:10.466-05:002017-04-06T16:31:10.466-05:00There is no such thing as a Centrist DemonKKKat Th...There is no such thing as a Centrist DemonKKKat They're all hard leftists. Much of the GOP is anything from hard to moderate left. Only the Freedom Caucus approaches being centrist.<br /><br />If trump involved those supposed centrist DimoKKKRats, he'd might as well hang the rest of his term on the hook, because it's over.Quartermasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-43892113534526607872017-04-06T12:35:31.976-05:002017-04-06T12:35:31.976-05:00And the consensus is....well isn't that is wha...And the consensus is....well isn't that is what the left always says? That we need a dialog and then come to a consensus?<br />So if a thousand monkeys and a typewriter can create a Shakespearen play......why couldn't a million humans create a workable solution to health care!?!?!?!?<br /><br />SteveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-342493024513807202017-04-06T09:10:27.718-05:002017-04-06T09:10:27.718-05:00"....Centrist democrats". Is this piece ..."....Centrist democrats". Is this piece from 50 years ago.ronehjrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05030321714661857492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-63858644552582989112017-04-06T08:46:52.791-05:002017-04-06T08:46:52.791-05:00I would merely note that the "Freedom Caucus&...I would merely note that the "Freedom Caucus" had the ability to remove Lyin' Ryan from the Speaker position for this Congress, and they refused to do so. A small number of them did indeed take a stand, but the caucus as a whole did jack shiite. That means they FORCED President Trump to deal with the treasonous POS. And then they, and their supporters, have the temerity to bitch when President Trump calls them out for their actions? May every one of them burn in hell where they belong. Along with the Rove Republicans and the Democrats as well.Mark Matisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-59724099377517860752017-04-06T07:20:19.097-05:002017-04-06T07:20:19.097-05:00The public has the means to fix national issues. ...The public has the means to fix national issues. It's called the "market" and it works well if allowed to do so. Obamacare, and several decades of state and federal regulation have severely restricted the market, warped it, damaged it. The regulations were designed to do just that, to the benefit of crony insurance businesses.<br /><br />Repeal the regulations. If you're going to strengthen regulations, aim for contract law. Make it harder for insurance companies to weasel out of contractual obligations and control the use of "fine print".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-32488002530123658732017-04-06T06:44:27.464-05:002017-04-06T06:44:27.464-05:00Simple solution:
Repeal.
No One Owes Anyone Hea...Simple solution:<br /><br />Repeal. <br /><br />No One Owes Anyone Health Insurance. <br /><br />Until that fact is held true, the system is set up to fail. <br /><br />Anything else is unacceptable. The RNC boys and girls ran on a platform of repeal. Time to honor that promise. B https://www.blogger.com/profile/10586046436233366155noreply@blogger.com