Originally posted by mikemike If this is a viable option on the state level but not on the federal level
Since you actually have "rich states" and "poor states" that wouldn't work..
Here Mike...I've got some broccoli to sell you
The Free Market: Four-Step Health Care Solution, A
1. Eliminate all licensing requirements for medical schools, hospitals, pharmacies, and medical doctors and other health care personnel. Their supply would almost instantly increase, prices would fall, and a greater variety of health care services would appear on the market.
2. Eliminate all government restrictions on the production and sale of pharmaceutical products and medical devices.
3. Deregulate the health insurance industry. Private enterprise can offer insurance against events over whose outcome the insured possesses no control. One cannot insure oneself against suicide or bankruptcy, for example, because it is in one's own hands to bring these events about.
4. Eliminate all subsidies to the sick or unhealthy. Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized. Subsidies for the ill and diseased breed illness and disease, and promote carelessness, indigence, and dependency. If we eliminate them, we would strengthen the will to live healthy lives and to work for a living. In the first instance, that means abolishing Medicare and Medicaid.
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The Free Market: Four-Step Health Care Solution, A
So you think the Feringi "utopia" is the way to go.........#1 just made me shiver............