Over the past almost two years, you couldn’t come up with a good plan even though you had all three branches. [/QUITE]I'm right there with ya on that one. They had 7 years to come up with a replacement plan, and after all that time Paul Ryan emerged with Cup-o-Dirt and said, "Isn't it preeeettttyyyyy?" Ryan should be bent over the lap of every single American and every single American getting 10 whacks at his butt with a paddle.
The crap they tried to push through would have disastrous for the common man.
It would have been a disaster, because they didn't fully roll baclk Obamacare, but no more of a disaster than Obamacare. The disaster of Obamacare was just getting on a good roll. If left to its own devices, we know with one hundred percent certainty that within just a few years there would be no more health insurers because no one could afford the premiums, and the government would have full control of universal healthcare, which was the goal from the beginning. But, other than the Department of Defense, the more control the government has over something and the more they spend on it, the more it costs and the worse it gets. We spent $7
trillion on the War on Poverty, and what have we got to show for it? Orders of magnitude more poverty. We've spent trillions on education, and what do we have to show for it? A country full of stupid people with Gender Studies degrees. And now you want the government to be in charge of our healthcare dollars? Seriously?
The point is quite complaining until you come up with something better. If and when you ever do I would be open to checking it out.
Tort reform to make malpractice insurance reasonable and ridiculous lawsuits harder to bring. The medical arts isn't perfect science, nor will it ever be. Open up insurance coverage across state lines nationwide so it can have competition. Require hospitals and other medical facilities to publish the prices for services and procedures, and to have line item billing. Require health providers to charge the same for cash customers as they do for insurance customers. Require pharmaceutical companies to charge the same price in the US as the lowest price they charge for the same medication anywhere in the world, and require them to charge the same rate to cash customers as they do to insurance companies. Ban all consumer advertising of prescription medication and medical devises. I could go on, but you should be able to get the idea. These are all obvious and reasonable. Maybe not common sense, but it should be.
