I don't personally believe in this but this is my plan...please read and give ideas if you have any.
Poverty shouldn't exist in the United States, one of the richest countries in the world. But it does. According to the US Census Bureau there are 45.7 million people that lived below the poverty line in 2007, 8.7 million of those being children. Is free health care included in this? With us being one of the richest countries in the world we should be able to afford free health care for every working individual in the United States, but we don't. My partner and I stand resolved that the United States government should substantially increase social services for persons living under the poverty line in the United States. We offer the following plan.
Plank 1: Administration. The plan will be passed by U.S. Congress and implemented by a non-profit agency, so as not to give the government too much control.
Plank 2: Mandates. The federal government should only play a limited part in the health care reform, only accounting for the taxes that are collected for this program. And to support the program in any way necessary excluding extra funding.
Plank 3: Logistics. This plan will be executed by raising or introducing taxes in three different areas that contribute to the rising cost of health care. The taxes include a High Risk Factor Tax, a Fatty Food Restaurant Tax, and a Cigarette/Alcohol Tax. We will explain the taxes in more detail later in the plan.
Contention 1 – Inherency
A.Existing federal programs do not catch the "middle class," and "lower middle class" who make too much money for Medicaid or are too young for Medicare, excluding the V.A. (veteran's program)
Wyn Staheli, President of Instacode Institute, LLC said, * "Uninsured Americans are often uninsured because their employers don't have enough funds to pay for comprehensive health insurance because the economy is down and health insurance premiums are soaring at phenomenal rates. These rate increases are being driven by malpractice, litigation (lawsuits) , and the resulting malpractice premiums that doctors are being required to pay after a successful, (or unsuccessful, however you choose to look at it lawsuit), which drives up the cost of overhead for the provider which is then passed along as increased rates to the patient or the insurance company. Also the cost of these procedures and all of these advances in medicine is more expensive as new technology comes to market the cost of research and development is passed on as increased costs for the procedure, for the procedure or the medication."
this is the one contention we have, any more would be appreciated as well as hams and solvency
we're 15.
i'd say that's pretty naive, we aren't sending this to congress to get to to pass it, we're just trying to pass a class and you're not giving any good advice anyway.
the government does not need more power anyway
and medicaid isn't just for kids.
kids can have it but it is designed for low income families
and i have to have mandates in my plan, not my choice there but i'm not giving the government any power over the agency that will be in charge of health care but the agency has power over them
Proud Dittohead
I'm sorry but your proposition is filled with naivety. The only way things get done in Washington is for politicians to gain from the legislation. Your proposal would not allow them enough power and therefore it would never succeed.
paul s
kids have medicaid. The money comes from, having all the healthy pay for insurance and when possible refusing to provide said service when needed
Anti ACORN (COI) protestor
Please consider the relativity of poverty, when the poor of America can be seen running around in cars and talking on cell phones.
Malpractice is not a bad thing, it keeps doctors honest, but it is out of hand, so yes, some tort reform is necessary, but that is indeed a state issue... Research Texas who has implemented Tort Reform.
Cost does correlate with technology, but so does quality.
Anyone can access Medicaid, if their bills exceed their income. But Medicaid should become a compensatory program, where the participants receive service in exchange for service, like a "work study program"
Mandates are unConstitutional, so keep that in mind, but a non-profit to tie in with the suggested volunteer, or work-benefit program, would be possible.
bellatruth
"With us being one of the richest countries in the world we should be able to afford free health care for every working individual in the United States"
First of all, we are no longer "Rich", we are in debt up to our eyeballs, in part due to the many Entitlements programs out there.
Second of all, there is No such thing as "Free" Health Care, someone, somewhere out there has to Pay for it.
Sadly, many think they can soak the so called "rich" for yet another Entitlement program, but Intelligent people understand that the middle class will ultimately bear the brunt of the costs, they will be funneled down to us through higher costs and more unemployment.
Doc
Your plan only lightly touches on the real driving force behind the rising cost of health care insurance. And that is: "Risk." Companies who underwrite already know the percentages, costs and prognosis of any given age group, ethnicity, height/weight and genetic history for any given disease.
Last evening we watched the pilot for the 1970's TV show "Fame." Looking at the "kids" then and comparing them to the youth of today: kids then were almost a full 60 pounds lighter. Most kids today look like 30 pounds of crap squeezed into a 10 pound sack. Why? Lack of physical exercise, poor diet and excessive chemicals like High Fructose Corn Syrup in just about everything consumed.
The core issue is not necessarily the high cost of health insurance, but rather, poor education. When graduates of high school can barely read, write and do math, have no discernible, marketable skills what you end up with is a nation with a 15% uninsured rate. Raise the level of education and that number will drop. But realistically understand too that there will always be an underbelly of society. Without them to do the menial labor at a minimal wage, the cost of everything across the board will over inflate. Raising minimum wage only means those with more time in service will also demand a raise to reflect their seniority. In the end, those raises only serve to drive up the cost of goods and services which will ultimately null and void any gains made by raising minimum wage. Raise the education level.
*later*
Given your age, I'd say what youve got is pretty brilliant. Strikes me that you have a better grip on it than do most of the adults who post here.
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