Sunday, June 14, 2009

How to Recognize Real Healthcare Reform

So if the current "Healthcare Reform Bill" is really about raising taxes, increasing premiums, removing medical expense deductions, and mandates forcing individuals to purchase insurance, what would real healthcare reform look like?

You will recognize it when the following occurs:

1. Inefficient and non-productive health care providers are no longer rewarded.
2. Efficient and productive health care providers are rewarded and allowed to increase their domain.
3. DOL stops making extremely optimistic projections about the numbers of workers in the
healthcare increaing at rates that cannot be afforded by the US economy.
4. The productivity of the average worker in the healthcare industry increases.
5. Healthcare costs start to come down as measured as a percent of GDP.

This means winners and losers MUST be determined. I prefer a market based solution. Others prefer some kind of government intervention. In either case, it must be done.

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