Conservative review posted the following 20 ideas to Repeal and replace Obamacare. They are calling the current proposal RINO care. I agree, though I don’t agree will all twenty of Mr. Horowitz’s proposals. See more of my comments after you have read below or see the full article here
Health care reforms
- End the medical malpractice boondoggle.
- Allow hospitals to turn away non-urgent illegal aliens.
- Offer a tax deduction for those providing health care to indigents.
- Reform FDA approval process … big time.
- Make more drugs available over the counter.
- Stop boxing out specialty hospitals with burdensome certifications.
- Expand who can deliver care so health providers have to compete for the customer.
- Promote telemedicine and other modern delivery systems.
- Break the AMA monopoly on medicine and prevention of for-profit healthcare.
- Repeal the HIPAA regulatory leviathan.
- Encourage health care providers to post prices online.
Health insurance reforms
- Tear down regulations.
- Promote health status insurance to deal with pre-existing conditions.
- Stop socially engineering employer-based insurance through the tax code and treat it the same as individual plans.
- Allow unlimited Health Savings Account spending.
- Let consumers and employers purchase health insurance plans across state lines.
- Permit individuals to pool together for group insurance.
- Change antitrust laws so Big Pharma’s stranglehold on competition is destroyed.
- Make Medicaid work with the market, not destroy it.
- Allow affluent seniors to opt out of Medicare.
Many of the above are essential, but some seem to lack understanding of the system, and some (like malpractice reform will probably never happen. The lobbyists are powerful!). Publishing our fees, for example is pretty meaningless, because the insurance companies dictate what we will be paid.
I will try and comment more on the “RINO” plan once I have studied it a little more.