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Free Excerpt From The Book (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) First truly comprehensive and Constitutional plan to reform health care in the U.S.Balances needs of the most vulnerable with personal responsibility and fiscal responsibility. From recognizing the existing and worsening shortages of physicians, nurses, and dentists to a plan that delivers what taxpayers have been told we're providing: true coverage for the elderly, disabled, and children, the entire system is put in right order. Physicians and patients are to be in charge, not bureaucrats in government or insurance companies. All private insurance offerings will continue to exist, but with decreased governmental interference. All governmental health care is reformed: Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, VA, and IHS. Patients are to have affordable (means tested) premiums, co-pays, and limits on what they expend in a year on necessary medical care. All physicians, facilities, and prescriptions are "on the plan" so true free market forces can work. Price transparency is required of all providers, but they decide what they charge. All "pre-existing conditions," caps on procedures, and more are eliminated but because only necessary medical care (as well as a physical with follow-up and potentially an ER visit) per year are covered, costs are reduced. Prescriptions are more affordable owing to negotiation and bulk buying (as the VA does and Medicare is prohibited from doing). No fines, no coercion, no coverage of illegals at taxpayer expense are necessary under this plan. People who prefer a private insurance are free to choose it, but no one will be forced to be uninsured because of cost or uninsurable medical conditions. People will know up front what they are financially responsible for and what will be covered by any insurance plan (one of the reforms applicable to all plans). Plan ends inability to obtain or afford insurance, concerns about being mobile, about insuring children, or fear of quitting a bad job because it provides benefits. Increases slots for medical school, nursing, and dental education as well at more affordable costs to students so that Americans can have the number of health care providers we need without mandating a high percentage of foreign medical graduates come to the U.S. to be physicians (or nurses or dentists). Better paying careers for thousands of well-qualified students turned away annually from those professional schools because of inadequate seats will thwart the impending crisis as current professionals near retirement or leave from exasperation with the unfair system we have now. Plan calls for immediate enforcement of antitrust and contract law violations which are common in the health care field. As Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman noted, if free market principles were applied to health care, it could be better and cost substantially less than it does. The plan is the consumer-driven, free market antidote to failed universal health care or socialized medicine systems that some are calling for. Funding is discussed.
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| About the Author | |
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Cassandra Nathan completed EMT training to better care for her ill parents who live with her for nearly 20 years. Her strong interests in U.S. history, economics, health care, and government for decades led her to try to develop a comprehensive plan to correct the health care crisis in the U.S. |
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