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I'm confused. You say you support reforming healthcare by reducing the role of government, but what exactly do you mean by this? Reducing medicare? medicaid (al
by ajg1977 17y ago
I'm confused. You say you support reforming healthcare by reducing the role of government, but what exactly do you mean by this? Reducing medicare? medicaid (although that is more of a state run program)?
Perhaps you could enlighten me by specifying what exactly you'd like to reduce, and what you hope to achieve? (Note: statements such as "reduce government involvement" are soundbites, not answers).
- robak 17y ago1. No subsidies to big pharma, insurance companies 2. No Medicaid, Medicare 3. Insurance is an insurance not a gift. Insurance be definition is against risk which probability of occurance is low. It should cover only major, complex surgeries and nothing else. This would keep prices down. Look, wherever insurance isn't involved, like plastic surgeries prices go down in the real terms. Wherever it is, the prices go up because nobody shops around for the best price. For cold, flu, etc. we should pay all out of our pockets / savings. This would keep prices down the same way it does for plastic surgeries.
- viggity 17y agoWhat are you talking about? I gave 3 very specific examples in my post. Quote: Things like policy portability, a greater ability to create risk pools, the ability to buy policies originating in a different state. The Government restricts all of these things. In addition, the government could drastically reduce the barriers to creating new drugs and treatments. Do these barriers save some lives: yes. But they end up killing many more because the FDA is always going to error on the side of caution, thereby denying the treatments that work to people who desperately need them.