Solutions to health care and consequences if its screwed up!

On my twitter.com site (@RulesAreForYou), I recently listed 5 changes that need to be implemented in order to solve the current health care crisis without the $1.5 Trillion Obamacare initiative known as HR 3200. These common sense ideas would give everyone in the US a much better health care experience without breaking the back of the US taxpayer which is already in dire straights of being overwhelmed by this administration and legislative agenda on energy (Cap & Trade), Stimulus II, Detroit Bailout 1,2&3 (don't forget the Cash for Clunkers), and the union (Card Check).

 

What everyone including the Dems & BHO for proposing it, and the Republicans for fights the wrong fight DON'T UNDERSTAND is simple Economics 101!!!!!! Folks, it does not take a rocket scientist or Nobel Prize winner (these days they are all political and not intellectual choices anyway) to understand the real issue with health care reform. I will explain.

 

First, what are MY health care initiatives that will solve the problem today without spending $1.5 Trillion?

 

1.  Stop exempting health care insurance companies from the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, and allow interstate insurance competition.

2.  Provide health care tort reform getting the huge tort awards out of the medical field; this stops "defensive medical practices."

3.  Allow batch government pharmaceutical volume purchasing along with Medicare fraud prosecution.

4.  Double/triple the number of PA and NPs by recruiting and paying tuition fees for these medical professionals.

5.  Separate hospitals' Emergency Department areas into non-emergency and emergency areas to cut down on acute care costs.

These 5 initiatives and their supporting corollaries would support the needs of Americans WITHOUT the need for a government take-over or even significant intrusion. It would solve the current major problems and provide the profit-motive that makes the US health care system the best in the world. Come now, liberals, before you jump and down, please ask me where every dictator or wealthy foreigners come to get the best medical care in the world? Ok, now sit down and shut up until you know more than me.

 

Second, the primary economic principle that all politicians are simply ignorant of: the Dems by proposing it, and the Repubs for not using it to make the US voters understand is simple the economic principle of "the law of supply & demand." Stated for even the public school graduates to understand is this: as you increase demand without increasing supply, either price will go up or rationing of the product or service must occur.

 

Applied to health care the principle is: if you give what the Dems say is the number of uninsured (40-50 million) access to health care without increasing the number of health care professionals (MD, RN, NP, or PA) and health care facilities (hospitals, clinics or out-patient sites) the law of supply & demand will take over the health care environment.

 

What does this mean: since the BHO/SMDC HR 3200 has stated that they will "SET PRICES" then the only other economic alternative available is the rationing of health care services. For those that don't believe that rationing will occur then you are simply naïve or ignorant or both. Do you homework about the 1973 gas rationing experience. It was simple supply and demand. Nixon froze "price and wages," and thus forced the rationing of gasoline to occur during the spring and summer of 1973. It is as much a law of nature as the law of gravity.

 

So if HR 3200 becomes law then health care rationing will be the consequence. Pure and simple.