Recommendation #14 of the Zaniya Task Force proposed draft recommendations:
Solving the lack of access to affordable health care by requiring people to buy health insurance makes as much sense as solving hunger by requiring everyone to buy food.
Enact legislation to require South Dakota citizens to be financially responsible for their health care by means of a minimum level of health insurance or showing a financial ability to pay for health care costs. A necessary component of that legislation would be the establishment of effective enforcement of the financial responsibility standard through a multi-faceted approach.
Solving the lack of access to affordable health care by requiring people to buy health insurance makes as much sense as solving hunger by requiring everyone to buy food.
Ditto for Hillary's plan then?
ReplyDeleteClinton unveils mandatory health care insurance plan
Hillary gets no love here. I'd have more respect for her if she stuck to her original plan from the 1990s. Instead, she takes big contributions from the insurance industry (see Michael Moore's SiCKO), then proposes a health care plan guaranteeing more profits for insurance companies. Go figure... and go Dennis Kucinich!
ReplyDelete"I'd have more respect for her if she stuck to her original plan from the 1990s."
ReplyDeleteOf course, now the word on the wire is that the 90's plan wasn't Hillary's. Sure she allowed all the media to call it hers when she was presenting it... but now that it is just an ugly stain of a memory, we get a story that it was supposedly Bill's plan all along.
And here's some evidence for you to consider:
ReplyDeleteColorado had a Zaniya-like task force and they were considering 4 different health care reform options. A consulting group hired by the force determined that only one of those would have saved Coloradans money: the single-payer plan... and it only saves 4.7 percent.
But... this savings comes only by "dramatic compromises in the breadth and quality of care."
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There are better ways to handle health care, Cory. You still haven't given consideration to any of my three ideas:
1) Government regulates price, but private insurance still does the paying. (Regulating the procedure costs is all that is needed to bring health care back to the affordable realm.)
2) Government makes a voluntary health plan and competes with private insurance companies. (If a government-run program truly is more efficient, then it can win covered lives by competition, not coercion.)
or
3) A universal health care plan funded solely by a sales tax that exempts basics, and over-taxes unhealthy choices. (Buying cigarettes, whiskey, and French fries leads directly to health problems, so part of the sale of those items should put money away to pay for the resulting care.)