![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Fuuuubaaaar.
I know I can't be the only person who's tired of hearing about the health care bill. Or anything about health care in general. Personally, even though I'm totally for reform, I think this is going to fail hard core. Their intentions are [supposedly] good, but I think they're going about it wrong.
And by wrong I mean doing it too damn fast.
I've been reading the paper, and you know, one person had this idea.I think he based it off of the Swiss health care plan? Who knows. But don't make companies pay for a person's health care. Have it so that each individual person/families, go and buy their own health care. Then instead of corporations getting the tax credit for giving their employees, the citizens get it because they're the ones who bought it. I think that's a pretty decent idea, or at least to me.
Everyone is talking about making it competitive and yadda yadda, I think that would be the most competitive. Especially if people could shop across state lines for care. You can get your care from anyone in the nation. There would be a bajillion different plans [not that there aren't now e__e] and you could find one that fits you perfectly. It'd be like shopping for car insurance.
Then it would be all on that person to find insurance for themselves. And you know, TECHNICALLY, since that big expense isn't being paid for by the companies anymore, they should be able to pay their employees more. [I doubt they would. Straight into their profit margin get] And small businesses without insurance, well... It would stay the same for them. Their employees had to go buy their own anyway, but now they'd have better options.
I dunno. I'm just regurgitating what I read and trying to make sense of it, but I guarantee that whatever they're trying to do now is going through so fast that there are bounds of extras snuck in there [like the stimulus] and some things have loopholes, regulations are too biased against [and for] certain people.
*shrugs* Aa well. It'll happen. Perhaps I'll write to my senators. I doubt I'd get a response, but fff. What would they say besides 'We're glad you're following the debate, and we will give all ideas their due time on the floor of the Senate =D'.
I know I can't be the only person who's tired of hearing about the health care bill. Or anything about health care in general. Personally, even though I'm totally for reform, I think this is going to fail hard core. Their intentions are [supposedly] good, but I think they're going about it wrong.
And by wrong I mean doing it too damn fast.
I've been reading the paper, and you know, one person had this idea.
Everyone is talking about making it competitive and yadda yadda, I think that would be the most competitive. Especially if people could shop across state lines for care. You can get your care from anyone in the nation. There would be a bajillion different plans [not that there aren't now e__e] and you could find one that fits you perfectly. It'd be like shopping for car insurance.
Then it would be all on that person to find insurance for themselves. And you know, TECHNICALLY, since that big expense isn't being paid for by the companies anymore, they should be able to pay their employees more. [I doubt they would. Straight into their profit margin get] And small businesses without insurance, well... It would stay the same for them. Their employees had to go buy their own anyway, but now they'd have better options.
I dunno. I'm just regurgitating what I read and trying to make sense of it, but I guarantee that whatever they're trying to do now is going through so fast that there are bounds of extras snuck in there [like the stimulus] and some things have loopholes, regulations are too biased against [and for] certain people.
*shrugs* Aa well. It'll happen. Perhaps I'll write to my senators. I doubt I'd get a response, but fff. What would they say besides 'We're glad you're following the debate, and we will give all ideas their due time on the floor of the Senate =D'.
