WWJD = What Would Jesus Do?
Tweety and "Christian" Republicans want to be religious, spiritual, "Christian," yet cannot answer the question WWJD for healthcare in the right way.
Healthcare is a RIGHT! Find a way to MAKE IT HAPPEN IN CONGRESS!
"Memo To Mitch McConnell: Let's Get Real About Health Care Costs
July 06, 2017, Rich Barlow
http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2017/07/06/republican-health-care-bill-rich-barlow
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Memo to Mitch: Get real.
If you want to rein in what the government pays for health, focus on America’s highest-in-the-world medical prices instead of denying folks coverage. And the ineluctable lesson of experience is that curbing prices requires government intervention, no matter how it nauseates the libertarians in your caucus.
By “government intervention,” I don’t necessarily mean the GOP must swallow the ideologically contraindicated pill of Bernie Sanders’s beloved single-payer system, in which government is the only insurer. True, that approach controls costs; in 2014, single-payer Canada spent $5,292 per person on health care. The U.S.? $9,403.
But experience also suggests that single-payer systems don’t match our knack at fostering medical innovation, and anyway, an insurance takeover by Uncle Sam is a pipe dream in a nation wary of big government. That’s why Barack Obama consciously rejected single-payer in drafting his namesake law (and contrary to Republican lies and hysteria, Obamacare is not in critical condition. It simply needs manageable improvements.)"
More.
"One possibility: Use the law of supply and demand to rein in doctors’ pay, by setting immigration policy to allow more foreign doctors into the country to spur competition. The Center for Economic and Policy Research, a progressive think tank, estimates we’d save almost $100 billion annually if our docs, who average north of $250,000 each year after expenses like malpractice insurance, made the same as physicians elsewhere (Germany’s and Canada’s make about half as much). Eliminating that differential would nip a couple of percentage points off our health spending, while still giving physicians a solid income.
One reason our doctors need to earn more is that U.S. medical education costs more than in other countries. Low or free tuition at public medical schools, a la Europe, could help medical students graduate without crushing debt, avoiding the need for lavish pay levels.
America’s mix of care is screwy, too; specialists provide services that less-expensive general practitioners could do. Laws aimed at rebalancing that equation are worth considering."
There are too many good ideas available to muck around with the nonsense being used to "help" Americans.
