To Stem the Tide of Rising Health Care Costs
Information gathered by the American Policy Roundtable
The rise
in health care costs is a result of cost
shifting from the medical community to the
business community, HMOs and Insurance
Companies.
1. Return
to the free enterprise, market based system of
the years prior to 1968.
A. Physician visits were fewer and
fee for service.
B. The indigent were provided free
or "in kind" care. |
2.
Make health insurance policies catastrophic and
$1000 deductible. That will reduce the
unnecessary visits to the doctor's office.
3.
Eliminate the middle man. The business of
Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) run by
businessmen and paying manager physician's
inflated salaries. This is one
bureaucratic layer that can be eliminated.
4. Make
suits more difficult by penalizing the attorney
and client who sue for trivialities. As it
is there is no pain for the sue-er.
5. Lower
mal-practice fees thereby making the practice of
medicine more affordable. The savings are
passed on to the patients.
6. By
lowering the rate of law suits physicians will
be less apt to practice "defensive medicine."
7. Get
government out of the medical field.
Medicare has raised the cost of medical care
exponentially. We cannot provide free care
or we are penalized.
8. Make
people more responsible for their own health
care by rewarding non-smokers and persons with a
body mass index below 30.
9. Get
drug companies to stop ads on TV and give the
cost savings to the patient customers.
10. The
democrat candidates will exacerbate the problems
that already exist with their universal
coverage. They will destroy small
businesses and raise the taxes on everyone to
never before known levels.
11. Long
lines for service will accompany the "free"
systems. Medical care will be rationed.
12. Allow
the one's who are trained in the care of
patients to decide what is best for them. |
