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The U.S. ranks 37th in World Health Organization ratings, just ahead of Slovenia
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06-07-2009, 12:51 AM
Flame Viper
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I know the solution to the health care problem in this country. I have devised a plan that will make health care available to everyone without over burdening the tax payer, but I'm not going to tell anyone because I'm a dick.
That is what the post would look like if someone actually had a solution to this complex problem, and for starters it probably wouldn't be some guy on a toy site that had the answer anyway. If someone actually had a feasible plan that was guaranteed to work it would have been implemented by now. Until that day comes the current system is just going to have to do. If one of you guys actually has this magic health care plan write a letter to Obama. It might be a long shot, but it would still be a better way of solving the problem than arguing with another TOY COLLECTOR.
Well, here is my shot at it.
What America’s health care system desperately needs are structural changes that create real competition. The key test is whether or not health care reform puts in place such changes to maximize the ability of many individuals to make basic choices about their own coverage and medical care. Principles to judge health care plans include:
1) Make consumers the key decision makers. In a consumer-centered health care system, indi*viduals make the crucial decisions medical treatment and insurance. The government’s role should be limited to providing means-tested financial assistance and ensuring transparent pricing to increase consumer choice.
2) Allow individuals to buy and own their coverage. When a parent purchases breakfast cereal for a child, the customer is the parent, not the child. Although it’s probably not a good idea for parents to allow younger children to choose a cereal, it’s clearly a good idea to allow consumer — not their employers or the government — to choose their own health insurance.
3) Empower consumers to choose the right plan for them. The most basic decision consumers must be allowed to make is which health insurance plan to buy. Even the most sophisticated consumer may not have all the relevant information, or sufficient time to gather and analyze it, when deciding among providers and treatments. A consumer-oriented system makes the facts and expertise available to assist consumers.
4) Remove barriers that prevent a range of choices. Market competition works when consumers are free to choose among many options and when suppliers are free to innovate in meeting consumer demands and preferences. A precondition to any well-functioning, consumer-centered market is the removal of regulations that unduly restrict either consumer options or supplier innovation.
5) Make prices transparent to consumers. Government can play a legitimate role in ensuring a market functions fairly and smoothly by establishing basic rules for clear and up-front prices so consumers may “comparison shop.” Government already requires grocers to include the unit price for products sold by weight or volume, for instance, and also requires lenders to disclose the effective annual percentage rate (APR) of a loan to prospective borrowers. For the health care system, lawmakers and stakeholders will need to agree on appropri*ate standards for calculating and communicating prices to consumers.
6) Consumers must have regular opportunities to choose. For a market to be truly consumer-centered, individuals must be able — at least periodically — to reconsider past purchasing decisions and make different choices. A market that restricts consumer choice by unreasonably locking consumers into decisions has the effect of shifting the balance of power in the market back to suppliers.
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