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Fixing American Healthcare: Solutions, Instead of Rhetoric!

Although politically controversial, the American healthcare system should and should be improved, both in terms of pricing and effectiveness / delivery. When the Affordable Care Act was finally signed into law by President Obama in 2010, because there were too many uninsured or underinsured Americans. However, perhaps due to the realities of politics, this legislation was flawed, and while costs may not have risen as much as they could have, they have otherwise seemed to spiral upward. Rather than address the flaws, Republican lawmakers focused on them, for apparent political advantage. Instead of retouch or introducing ideas, to make it better and less expensive, they simply tried to repeal it, but without anything, better or viable, to improve and enhance it. When Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016, one of his campaign promises was that he would repeal it and immediately replace it with something much better and less expensive. Although the majority of both houses of Congress were also Republican, neither was able to repeal or improve the concept, but, he went on to articulate, lots of empty promises and rhetoric! With that in mind, this article will briefly attempt to consider, examine, review, and discuss some possible viable solutions to address the needs and priorities of the citizens who need it most.

1. Coverage, without pre-existing conditions: Before the Affordable Care Act, people with pre-existing conditions who often need coverage most of all couldn’t get it. However, in doing so, healthier people had to pay a little more to subsidize these people. Although President Trump continues to articulate a message, promising to protect these people, the Republicans’ actions in Congress and their apparent efforts seemed to contradict his rhetoric. How to cover these conditions, while controlling costs, must be a central component of our healthcare system!

two. Prescription costs: Why are so many prescription drugs in the United States so much more expensive than identical pharmaceuticals in other parts of the world? If there is ever a place where proactive governance is needed, it is in effectively negotiating with these manufacturers to control this. If legislators and politicians really wanted to control this, they would pass a law in which the prices of prescription drugs would have to be set here, at a competitive level, with the rest of the world. !

3. Hospital costs: One of the key factors that has driven up healthcare costs significantly is the cost of hospital care. A well-considered plan, focused on an improved operating model, might have to include, the need to design a plan, to control the run away malpractice insurance rates. This has been a political football, due to the power of the American Bar Association, which seems to try to protect its members, by fighting against these controls, to a great degree on a personal / political agenda and / or out of self-interest!

Four. Control health insurance costs: Health insurance rates have risen steadily, and because President Trump’s cronies have removed the mandate to buy insurance, etc., the result has been that younger, healthier Americans are often, optted – out. The impact of this has been the increase in rates and costs. Some politicians have promised and promoted, what they refer to, either as Universal health care, gold Medicare for all, while ignoring, some of the factors, which should be considered or factored. For example, there are issues with Original Medicare, including costs, paying for this (our entire working life), ongoing and ongoing copays (currently around $ 135 per month), and the fact that it doesn’t cover, everything ( in fact, it covers about 80%). People must buy supplemental insurance if they want to be covered, and the most popular of these now costs about $ 4,000, per year, per person. Although many physicians are willing to accept the lowest payment program, because it represents only a fraction of their patients, there is a question whether a large and sufficient number would accept this for their entire practice.

5. Use Universal Insurance, to compete: If he Medicare for all, focus, were implemented, what would happen to the insurance companies and their hundreds of thousands of employees? Recently, the public has been informed of the financial weaknesses facing the program. If this public option were a component and / or option, it could increase competition, and if politicians were to focus on doing what is right and what is needed and necessary, rather than what is politically expedient, the system could actually , gets better!

Wake up, America, and demand that your public officials focus on realities and workable solutions, rather than simply using of lips – service, empty promises and rhetoric! Fixing this, in a quality way, will require fully considering options and alternatives, thinking outside the box, and making some difficult but necessary decisions.

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