So, why is Rand Paul's 4-page health plan being ignored?
Posted by jimjamesjames 8 years, 7 months ago to Government
SO SIMPLE!!!
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If it's already mainstream, why does it need radical elements to get more attention?
I don't think it really is mainstream. I'd like to know how to get it there.
I would say very mainstream since it was already happening for decades and illegal immigration by sneaking over the border was declining. By carrying on about it without specifics, though, it was a symbol for we're going to start taking our immigration laws seriously (which I think is good) and a way to give the low-lives false hope that it was a real policy change that would solve their problems (which I think is bad).
"More radical (meaning fundamental) solutions are more likely to gain attention because they are novel"
Selling it will be politicians' sausage-making work. I would be thrilled if they can pull it off.
ANSWER: D
1) Can't hide pork in that
2) It's too simple to obfuscate non-sense rules.
In the meantime, let Obamacare just fail.
No, no, they said, tell us what to do within the framework of you and politically connected people managing things, so we can get a cut and special favors.
I think the situation is somewhat similar when they refused Galt's suggestion. All of these people have careers and staffs managing complicated proposals. They have an incentive to discount a simple solution, a solution that lets people solve their own problems.
I think PPACA was a mixed bag, maybe 50% of what I believed in. Rand Paul's suggestion is revolutionary, like 95% of what I would enact if I were in charge of it. It hands people $400 per month, which is close to what PPACA does, but then does its best to get out of the way.
If Republicans tried for something like this and got something even close, I'd be Republican. They won't though. Gov't cost, intrusiveness, and borrowing will increase. And they'll pander to low-lives who want to feel less pathetic by making people who are different feel uncomfortable.
I want Rand Paul's 4-Page Plan!!
Once you create an agency or give the gov't a power, even if it's supposedly for a narrow particular problem, it's very hard to undo. My theory on why is the person who's getting a paycheck from it has a strong incentive to lobby to keep it, while the millions paying one cent don't have an incentive to lobby to get their cent back. If you say you want to cut across the board, people still have the incentive to keep it going for a few areas dear to them and their constituents: keeping a base open, Medicaid for the elderly, anything for the children, fighting evil-doers, and so on. Cutting gov't comes off an a justification for doing what benefits particular politicians. So the effort fails.
AS hit you over the head with in, in what for me was dark comedy with the politicians struggling to say without saying it aloud, "no, no, give us a plan that we and our cronies can benefit from."
I suspect that influences healthcare legislation. Health insurance companies have huge buildings full of employees doing a current system. Any plan that shakes up what those people are doing and who's doing it faces resistance. Politicians have to be mindful of their lobbyists concerns. The politicians often don't have a philosophical or economic mind. Their mind is remembering names and helping make connections. They have to hire wonks for the nuts and bolts.
I see this as part of a broader problem of gov't not having limits that it must obey regardless of what voters, politicians, and lobbyists may want. I see blaming it on "moochers" as simplistic. We have a system that's dependent on people always doing the right thing, even if it's an unpleasant decisions, and when they do the wrong thing it's hard to undo. Such a system can't work. I do not know exactly how to fix it, how to give the Constitution teeth.
WHY do they call it a "health care plan" when it's really a Health Insurance Company subsidy program? It has less to do with taking care of people and providing them health CARE (which is not the same as "health coverage', a convenient insurance industry mind training wordswap) than guaranteeing a big fat permanent and unearned payola to a few big companies.
Damn... if THAT'S supposed to be a "conservative value", then by gum, I want to start a company like that, where I'm the biggest fat recipient in front of the Government Payola line getting that guaranteed dole from the government..
Sure beats having doctors charge normal fees (not inflated payola-based ones) to make sure they all suckle off the fattened teat of the dotgov... to where we could PAY for our health care, not have Holy Mommy Insurance keep us cuddly and warm...
So yeah... if you believe INSURANCE SUBSIDY is the same as Value Earned - then you really are your brother's keeper. And like it that way.
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PT Barnum said that there is one born every minute! I'd say his estimate was way too conservative! Our all but defunct educational system along with the rest of our Hegelian based society is turning out Rubes by the millions.........And unfortunately, they all vote!
IT is HEALTH INSURANCE, not HEALTH CARE.
Still, it would be better than what we have now (as someone who personally chooses the HSA every chance he has had).
is a sacred obligation, and in the Constitution, that
every health-care bill has to be at least 2,000
pages long?! Only 4 pages?! Isn't that an insult to the American people?! Why then, maybe Congressmen could actually read the bill and understand what was in it before passing it! We can't have that, can we?
Relevant Trump platform sections below:
"5. Require price transparency from all healthcare providers, especially doctors and healthcare organizations like clinics and hospitals. Individuals should be able to shop to find the best prices for procedures, exams or any other medical-related procedure
--and--
"7. Remove barriers to entry into free markets for drug providers that offer safe, reliable and cheaper products. Congress will need the courage to step away from the special interests and do what is right for America. Though the pharmaceutical industry is in the private sector, drug companies provide a public service. Allowing consumers access to imported, safe and dependable drugs from overseas will bring more options to consumers."
https://trumpcare.org/
(The above statements are not 100% consistent with the free market philosophy, but the proposed policies would constitute a major move in that direction.)
"5. Require price transparency from all healthcare providers, especially doctors and healthcare organizations like clinics and hospitals. Individuals should be able to shop to find the best prices for procedures, exams or any other medical-related procedure."
You CAN shop around.
My wife needed a hiatal hernia surgery. I called her favorite surgeon (she's worked with him, she's an RN), was told $1800. Called the local hospital, was told no way to determine the final cost but between $10,000 and $20,000. Called two surgical centers, both, total cost, barely $5000,
These folks have absolutely no interest in making the hard decisions that must be made if we, as a Republic are to survive. It is also because they fear someone might not like the fact that they are actually making real decisions that will fix this mess we are careening towards! These clowns want to spend the rest of their lives living on the government taxpayers dime but they don't want to do what we are paying them to do. To the contrary, they will do anything to keep from rocking the boat and upsetting their Beltway Bandit "gravy train".
So much for the pretense of representing the people! So much for the citizen politician going to DC to make a difference and then returning to private life. Once so many of them get down there, they soon see themselves as the privileged ruling class that means that they can now rule (forever!), just by playing the game......That is the reason that the clowns like Pelosi, Ryan, McConnell, Graham, McCain, Reid and the rest of the "professions" do not allow the Freedom Caucus any voice (or respect)! For what its worth!