re: What’s a real conservative solution to fix healthcare?

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Because they can’t afford that at all.

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He does have a point though.

It's not a conservative think tank unless somebody's trying to kill poor people.

That’s silly.

Besides, margins on insurance are thin as it is.

My plan is the only way we could quickly implement to go back to the free market without destroying the insurance industry overnight and creating other types of chaos.
My plan cuts $1T from the budget, minimum.
No one is kicked to the curb.
My plan produces massive profit near term and unfathomable profit long term.
My plan keeps the govt out of healthcare.
Because estimates are that using cash reduces healthcare costs by 40%-60%, my plan is deflationary.
My plan stops the spiral toward disaster and also gives us an opportunity to figure out how we shape our monetary system because right now we are detached from the Constitution. We either must go back to strict compliance with the Constitution or construct an amendment and move forward.

I presented my plan before. You buy in, that gets invested. You get a debit card that is used for healthcare costs, like cash. No insurance, no govt, just you and your provider. Long term investment produces insane profits down the road and money left on the debit card after people pass away will produce enough money to erase our debt in the near term. Lot more to it than that, but that is the most concise way to describe it.

Trumps solution over a decade ago was to bring in Chinese competition

Total cash system. Eff the insurance companies.

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It's not a conservative think tank unless somebody's trying to kill poor people.

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Lower health care costs... fewer poor people. That's a win-win, isn't it?

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Divorce insurance from employment. Allow individuals to establish collectives to purchase policies as groups. Allow insurance to sell across state lines. Offer heavy tax incentives for the use of high deductible health plans. Have transparent pricing for healthcare.

In a manner somewhat like our Social Security system, Singapore takes mandatory deductions from workers' paychecks—around 20 percent of wages—and deposits them into health savings accounts called Medisave. Medisave accounts are used mostly for inpatient expenses, but also some outpatient ones. Singaporeans are expected to pay most of their outpatient expenses with non-Medisave cash.

On top of Medisave, Singapore has a government-run catastrophic insurance program called Medishield. Singaporeans can opt out of that plan and buy private catastrophic insurance. Premiums for Medishield can be paid for using the Medisave health savings accounts.

Then there is Medifund, a safety-net program for the bottom 10 percent of income earners, and Eldershield, a private insurance program for long-term care for those with old age-related disabilities. On top of these government-sponsored programs, Singaporeans can buy supplemental insurance for things like outpatient expenses.

Why does this system work so well? Because it incorporates the central idea behind free-market health care: that health-care spending is most efficient when that spending is executed by individual patients, rather than third parties. It's easy to waste other people's money. But if that money is your own, you are going to try your best to spend it wisely.