Health Reform, some ideas but not all:
Eliminate employer tax deduction for employee health insurance benefits
Allow the sale of nationally approved health insurance policies in all states
Establish a low cost, minimum benefit national policy, such as a catastrophic insurance policy, that overrides all state insurance minimum benefit requirements
Reestablish Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP as a medical insurance voucher system, similar to the FOOD Stamp program, for the purchase of private health insurance
Increase the number of medical school, nursing school and doctor assistant yearly graduates
Allow state licensed medical professionals to work in all states without need of relicensing
Allow many more foreign medical school graduates to practice medicine in the US
Remove antitrust exemption for insurance companies
And others that will increase insurance and medical provider competition, increase the number of medical providers, and put the responsibility for purchasing, price negotiating and paying for health insurance directly in the hands of the consumer
Politics, some observations but not all:
Do not do anything that will jeopardize insurance industry dollar contributions for Congressional reelections
Do not do anything that will risk reelection
Eliminate provisions that upset interest groups
Include provisions to increase federal government control of medicine and health
Include a government benefit program
Eliminate all risk pricing of health insurance policies
Mandate expensive required benefits for all health insurance policies
Make any compromises necessary to get Congressional holdout votes
Do not include provisions that will lower the cost of health care or health care insurance for the consumer
Include provisions that will increase federal government expenditures
And other provisions that most people cannot even imagine
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