re: Out of the Box Healthcare Ideas

The IBFreeman Subscription Based plan for medicare and medicaid

Recipients would receive vouchers to subscribe to providers of primary care and catastrophic care. They would be free to shop among the providers that would have such plans---basically all of them would quickly move to this.

If in their shopping they find a plan less than the voucher they can keep the difference.

Why this works?

1) pre existing conditions are not nearly as big a deal if the providers is going to get paid monthly whether people are sick or not

2) hospitals have tremendous fixed cost and most would prefer this type of income stream

3) shopping becomes easier and instead of having one buyer--the government--we would have hundreds of millions and that will bring down cost as it would bring competition into play

4) subsidies would become easier to define. Democrats should like this--

5) the corruption of government direct buying of healthcare services would be over.