Controlling Healthcare Costs

The mantra now is the we must control healthcare costs. But this is an unreachable goal. Sure we can reduce costs by limiting service, but limiting payments, but these always come with unintended consequences and are not really controlling costs, but mus managing healthcare.

The government, since it is already headlong into healthcare must think this; We must create the environment to enable the market to function and to produce the best care at the optimum price.

To do;

Create a competitive environment and not with a government option when the government controls all the rules and when the government is made up of people (from that old song...) who can' say "No".

To make the environment better on costs some limits on the option to sue. The environment now just encourages lawsuits. To start a lawsuit costs little and may generate a tsunami of money for the lawyers and the plaintive. If they lose, so what, little ventured.

The customer has to have skin in the game. No one should go to the doctor without having to pay someting. Every doctor should know and make avaiable "How much this will cost".

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