Science & Government Funding
A list I made in 15 minutes gives some solutions to how we would solve the problem of expensive medical care. There are not explanations of each, but I can explain how any would work if there is interest…
End the Fed; Cut current income tax of doctors to 0%, nurses to 50%; End Medicare; Open up a free market for licensing doctors (as opposed to the monopoly that the AMA currently has); Cut the current income tax for everyone; Decrease or eliminate drug patents, especially those based on tissues taken from patients; Decrease or eliminate equipment patents on medical technologies; Repeal laws on risk-pooling to allow consumer choice to determine the pool in which one belongs (as of now, I am, by law, pooled with people who smoke and eat McDonalds every day. People in Michigan necessarily pay for hair plug coverage, while Californians pay for marriage counseling to be included in all risk pools.); Let insurance be insurance (catastrophe insurance, for example) and allow people to pay out-of-pocket for visits to the doctor, which have nothing to do with insurance whatsoever; Repeal laws that ban interstate competition between insurance firms; Eliminate the FDA (I realize some might balk at this, fine. Then simultaneously remove all legal immunity that medical corporate entities have, extending personal liability to all employees, officers, directors, and even shareholders. There would be no malfeasance overnight if this were the case.); Eliminate the DEA; Eliminate HHS; Enforce the Constitution; Repeal the legal link between employment and insurance; Eliminate all public subsidies to sick people (subsidize something, and you will get more of it)…
What are your ideas?