What is the ONE thing our health care system needs to change?

If there was ONE thing you think needs to change in our health care system, so that our CHILDREN would be healthier, what would that be?What is the ONE thing our health care system needs to change?I would say tio change our whole health care system into a UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM like the european countries, such as France! I believe France has the best health care system...although many might argue about it because of high taxes.What is the ONE thing our health care system needs to change?
Which health care system are you talking about? Because they're all different.



Australia, America, England etc.....What is the ONE thing our health care system needs to change?Lower co pays.. I think it should cover everything, I would not mind paying a 50.00 co pay for something my insurance usually would not cover..What is the ONE thing our health care system needs to change?
To stop treating people who have paid nothing into it and concentrate on those of us who have.What is the ONE thing our health care system needs to change?Frankly, ONE thing won't fix the broken system and with parents who can't get the care they need, etc. who exactly is looking after the kids properly because love, supervision, discipline, diet, nutrition, and appropriate office visits (as per vaccinations) require energy, time, and money to pull off.



Only ONE real, comprehensive plan I've seen to date and it would work: http://www.booklocker.com/books/3068.htm鈥?/a>

Nathan has a way to reform the system--logically:

enforce CONTRACT law--right now too many legit claims are denied by companies with impunity because paying what they OWE would be "expensive"--see http://www.thenationalcoalition.org/DrPe鈥?/a> for one person who came clean on just that subject



enforce ANTITRUST law--in about half the 300 major markets there is one large insurer who CONTROLS the market and basically sets prices including what we taxpayers fork over for Medicaid, etc.



Nathan would require PRICE TRANSPARENCY which no honest man need fear or should object to. All those prices HIDDEN from the patient in the computer--let us see them NOW. We should shop around, especially the uninsured. The only game you can play where you get to charge whatever you FEEL like AFTER THE FACT instead of providing honest info up front. There's a MAJOR cause of bankruptcies right there. More than half the bankruptcies are over medical bills AND 75% of those folks HAVE insurance.



Nathan would also like to offer up a plan that stops the hemorraghing of taxpayer money and FIX the broken systems of Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP and END the problem of the uninsured and more importantly the uninsurABLE (folks who can't get insurance at ANY price). It's a VOLUNTARY, NO fines, NO employer mandates, NO new taxes on people.



It's catastrophic care PLUS. The plus is that EVERYONE on the plan gets:

a physical with follow up each year for a co-pay. They can have discounted prescription meds. They can have one NEEDED ER visit (ending ER abuse is important) per year with co-pay. Better than the other plans out there by far.

It's AFFORDABLE. How? Means-tested with a sliding fee scale--no way you can't afford it. The co-pays are based on what you can afford. The CATASTROPHIC LEVEL is also set by that. The working poor may only be able to shell out $2K in a year on med expenses--THEN the insurance would kick in. Someone making good money might have to shell out $10K before it kicked in. It's fair because it's going to save the well-off anyway because now they get robbed with every paycheck for BS like Medicaid which leaves lots of folks with NO coverage options and sends them into bankruptcy which COSTS US ALL.

Also by catching things early, which WOULD happen with a physical each year, we'll cut costs.

By making people pay their own way UNLESS and UNTIL they hit a catastrophic level of med expense, the nonsense of running to the doc for the sniffles or the ER for a stubbed toe ENDS because they have to pay for that themselves. This happens now with people who either have overly generous insurance plans or with illegals who use the ER as a doctor's office and because of spineless administrators, the abuse continues. Spineless administrators because federal law requires LIFE THREATENING conditions to be treated and stabilized without regard to payment. It does NOT, NOT, NOT say that any jerk who shows up at the ER and says "my toe hurts" gets seen at an ER. It is misapplied that way all the time, but that is the FAULT of spineless fools. Once the nonsense stops--or the administrator has to pay for that so it WILL stop--we'll see a reduction in who is going to the ER.



Then and this is KEY: Nathan says we need to greatly increase the number of doctors, nurses, and other allied health care professionals in the US. Right now we IDIOTICALLY turn away THOUSANDS of well-qualified students for NO good reason at all--then we rely on 25% of our RESIDENCIES to be filled by grads of foreign med schools--STEALING students from poor countries who provided those people with a free to them ed in many cases. They now get NOTHING for that expense they can ill afford.

Because of this we DENY a legit ed to qualified students in the US as well by relying on the fact that we will always have thousands of foreign med students who want to live HERE instead of their home country.

Just stupid as well as immoral.



Nathan's plan if implemented as she describes it would likely address more than 90% of ALL the problems with health care in the US and drop prices substantially. And ALL legit docs and facilities are automatically ON the plan so patients can see the doc or go to the facility of their choice. Funding IS explained.



It's doable, but there is no graft or patronage, no FORCE against the public, so no one seems interested. Go figure.