Charles Krauthammer wants to take away your Constitutional right to have your day in court. "[I'd a]bolish the entire medical-malpractice system. Create a new social pool from which people injured in medical errors or accidents can draw. The adjudication would be done by medical experts, not lay juries."
I'll agree with Krauthammer that Obamacare "simply multiplies the current inefficiencies and arbitrariness, thus producing staggering deficits with less choice and lower-quality care."
But unConstitutional socialism is not the way to go.
Neo-cons. [rolleyes] No wonder the complaint is that Republicans have no plan. All that is heard is nonsense.
There are two components to Krauthammer's plan: 1) Tear up the Constitution; 2) Raise taxes. "The plan is so simple it doesn't even have the requisite three parts," Krauthammer said. "Just two: radical tort reform and radically severing the link between health insurance and employment.
"There is no logical reason to get health insurance through your employer. This entire system is an accident of World War II wage and price controls. It's economically senseless. It makes people stay in jobs they hate, decreasing labor mobility and therefore overall productivity. And it needlessly increases the anxiety of losing your job by raising the additional specter of going bankrupt through illness."
Yep, but the solution is -- well....
"Tax employer-provided health-care benefits," Krauthammer said, "and return the money to the employee."
I must have been asleep that day during 'Conservatism 101,' but how does taxing businesses -- big and small, I'm guessing -- help? I appreciate the willingness to mention taxes -- taxes = services, after all. But I think my idea in my Post #203 to tax the individuals who use Obamacare is better.
Look, Obamacare is just too complicated. We ought to just copy an already-existing program -- Medicare, the plan for only Senators and congressmen, Charles Krauthammer's plan (not his neo-con fantasy but what he currently uses)....
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