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Instead Of House Healthcare Bill, Replace Federal Healthcare Laws By Letting The States Decide
Obamacare. The American Health Care Act. The Emergency Medical Transport and Labor Act. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Health Insurance Marketplaces (now called exchanges.) The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act. Medicare. Patient-centric healthcare. The Unfunded Mandate Reform Act.
These are some of the ways that Washington has "fixed" our healthcare system. Other than failure, they have one other attribute in common: they're Washington-generated, Washington-in-control. For more than 50 years, the federal government has dominated healthcare using a military command-and-control model.
To use a medical analogy, Washington has been the attending physician for a sick patient named healthcare for decades. With all the "treatments" imposed by the doctor-federal government, healthcare has become sicker and sicker, and sicker.
Spending on healthcare has more than tripled, rising from 5 percent of GDP in 1960 to 17.8 percent in 2016. Many accountants fear it will be 20 percent by 2025. That would be a 400 percent increase in 65 years. And what has the public gotten for all that ...
... spending?
It is increasingly hard to find a doctor. More than 30 percent of doctors can't afford to accept Medicaid reimbursement schedules. Even as millions of Americans gained health insurance through Medicaid expansion, Obamacare paid fewer and fewer doctors to care for them.
Therapy-by-Washington has made healthcare unaffordable as well as health insurance. Obamacare succeeded in making health insurance even more unaffordable. Now the House Republican healthcare bill, the American Health Care Act, wants to take back the insurance that the government gave for free.
When the same doctor (Washington) treats the same patient (healthcare) over and over with multiple different fixes, and the patient just keeps getting sicker, the problem is not the fixes — it is the doctor. Healthcare needs a new physician, one that is not Washington.
If not Washington, then who? If not by federal regulation, then how?
Instead of looking to Washington to save us with one more fix that fails or backfires, it is time to give the states a chance. Let the states decide on their healthcare. Call it the Fifty Plan or better, StatesCare. Let the states use whatever model(s) they choose to have whatever system their people want.
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For a deeper understanding of why healthcare is failing, how we can get back to caring for our patients, and how We the Patients can regain control of their money and their lives, Read, Curing the Cancer in U.S. Healthcare: StatesCare and Market-Based Medicine (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0984768696).
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