However, I would like to make sure that the poor get coverage, too! But, I do not think that anyone in this country can be considered poor in relationship to the poor in the rest one the world! What makes us so self centered to talk about raising the health care coverage from 91 to 95% without talking about raising the health care services to the poor in Africa from 15 to 18%? This is exactly the same as Marie Antoinette telling the peasants to eat cake when there was no bread!

I recognize that we do not have the money but I suggest to the compassionate liberals, instead of talking about spending a couple trillion dollars on making the greatest health care system in the world better or cheaper or more inclusive, how about getting outside of ourselves and spending that money on the people of the world! In my book, their little babies are just as important as ours!

The best idea here is definitely point number six which I wholeheartedly agree with. Removing the barrier of state lines for insurance companies would allow the market to function more efficiently and provide more care for less money to the public.

I am not sure that the tort reform in point number two would really change things all that much.

The portability point is also a good one, but it is not necessary to bar anything to achieve it. Big government has created regulations that require employers to provide Health insurance to all of their employees if they provide it to any of them. If this and other related regulations are repealed we will see people start buying their insurance directly from a competitive marketplace. People don’t buy their car insurance through their employer’s so their is no reason that we need to buy health insurance through our employer. Another important factor here is that the government stop trying to regulate people’s salaries. You can see in the news that the current administration is going on a crusade against “executive compensation”. This will force companies to use other “perks” in order to attract talent, which can include health benefits.

Thanks for posting your idea’s. I think that they need some refining, but they are appreciated.

What we need is consumers of healthcare becoming responsible for their own healthcare insurance and medical care. I like the idea of the patient (i.e. consumer) owning their own policy. I like very much how the relationship between patient and doctor is restored!

Share on Facebook, twitter, and write to your congressmen and women. Send this to the president. Get all your friends and family to do the same. We can try to start a real conversation!

Dear Senator/Congressman/Mr. President

President Obama/You has/have often said that he/you will consider any and all reasonable suggestions on the topic of healthcare reform.

There are many reasons that America needs healthcare reform. Amoung other reasons; we need to provide better healthcare coverage for the poorest among us. We need to provide better healthcare coverage for the sickest among us. We need to control the spiraling cost of health insurance and we need to do all of this without adding to the already astronomical national debt.

I respectfully suggest that the legislation currently being debated by Congress is unacceptable to the majority of residents/citizens because it does not solve the real problem in today’s healthcare system. The real problem is the spiraling cost of healthcare itself. Insurance companies are not the problem. Illegal aliens are not the problem. Drug companies are not the problem. The real problem will not be solved by a public insurance option or by taxing high-end insurance policies. The real problem will not be solved by fining people that do not by insurance. We will not solve the real problem by treating the it’s symptoms or by forcing people to act against their wishes.

The only way to solve the real problem is to give individuals the incentive to make informed choices about their healthcare.

Doctor Barry Jacobs, a Reproductive Endocrinologist from Texas recently suggested the following plan for solving the real issues in healthcare: http://www.sbabg.org/2009/10/21/health-care-reform-a-market-based-proposal. This plan directly addresses the cause of rising costs by eliminating the most dominant barriers to the free market in today’s system.

I believe that Dr. Jacob’s plan will reduce the cost of healthcare across the entire population. It puts the power to choose in the hands of the people receiving treatment. Dr. Jacob’s plan addresses the needs of those unable to help themselves. It addresses the needs of people with pre-existing conditions and it forbids rescission. It provides for humane treatment of illegal aliens. It helps Doctors to receive payment for services and it also encourages Doctors to volunteer their services to help those in need.

Dr. Jacob’s plan is a non-partisan approach which solves the real problems in American healthcare. I urge you to work with (all other members of) Congress to replace the current bill with one based on Dr. Jacob’s suggestions. I believe that most Americans would support such a plan.

Yours truly,

Because it doesn’t expand the role of federal government, it will never be passed by the current administration. They are only looking for solutions that expand federal power and control.

So, thanks for the effort, but nobody with the power to pass it wants to hear it.

SBABG – Can this be sent to the WH and can we mobilise your readership to get this in front of all senators and representatives? I’m writing to mine today.