Three or Four Hundred Dollars
I would cheerfully pay $300-400 for health insurance for my family. And I think i can pay that. I have a business, and I'd offer it to new employees if I could offset the cost some with a tax credit. But I would only entertain it if it could make sense. If a tribe of hippies like me started our own healthcare system it would probably do just fine but lack the economy of scale required to buy these large products, like catheters and gurneys.
Then, I would expect predictable stuff with well-established treatments, like heart attack, melanoma and diabetes would become such a sloppy-fat market the prices would be driven down for different treatments and associated products. Of 300,000,000 Americans, how many require insulin? Wow- what a group!
I heard an NPR discussion of the health system and how consumers themselves are often to blame for simply not knowing enough. We have to agree, the guy who takes a drug to fight off heart attacks made more likely by the layer of plaque in his veins is suicidal when he orders that Baconator- and should not be insured! And we do need to know stuff. I know stuff, like take the kid's temperature and break the fever. I eat every day. Dumb stuff, right?
A friend suggested health reform without addressing the compendium of other societal ills would be empty. I agree there's a lot of dumb stuff my kids know because it's come up. We eat, they complain about some of it, and they understand we eat some stuff that isn't crunchy or never moved itself. Personally, I think it's a more serious issue that I can't go to the mall and get a chest X-ray for $50. Really- in the old days, the guy used to come around with a cart...
I hope somebody smart suggests in a strong way that we include more doctors in this new health system, and pledge to tie up a bunch of education money in the sustenance of health.
And that $400 (because it's never the low number), from 50,000,000 homes covers this quite expensive health bill every year. People with health insurance can migrate toward the new plan, but the reaction of the market to a perfect plan would be immediate. These companies must transform themselves from basic middlemen to firms that simply underwrite day-to-day medical business with premiums they collect, invested prudently, and subsidized by the government.
Take 10% of what AIG executives got from taxpayers for failing to run a business well.
Then, I would expect predictable stuff with well-established treatments, like heart attack, melanoma and diabetes would become such a sloppy-fat market the prices would be driven down for different treatments and associated products. Of 300,000,000 Americans, how many require insulin? Wow- what a group!
I heard an NPR discussion of the health system and how consumers themselves are often to blame for simply not knowing enough. We have to agree, the guy who takes a drug to fight off heart attacks made more likely by the layer of plaque in his veins is suicidal when he orders that Baconator- and should not be insured! And we do need to know stuff. I know stuff, like take the kid's temperature and break the fever. I eat every day. Dumb stuff, right?
A friend suggested health reform without addressing the compendium of other societal ills would be empty. I agree there's a lot of dumb stuff my kids know because it's come up. We eat, they complain about some of it, and they understand we eat some stuff that isn't crunchy or never moved itself. Personally, I think it's a more serious issue that I can't go to the mall and get a chest X-ray for $50. Really- in the old days, the guy used to come around with a cart...
I hope somebody smart suggests in a strong way that we include more doctors in this new health system, and pledge to tie up a bunch of education money in the sustenance of health.
And that $400 (because it's never the low number), from 50,000,000 homes covers this quite expensive health bill every year. People with health insurance can migrate toward the new plan, but the reaction of the market to a perfect plan would be immediate. These companies must transform themselves from basic middlemen to firms that simply underwrite day-to-day medical business with premiums they collect, invested prudently, and subsidized by the government.
Take 10% of what AIG executives got from taxpayers for failing to run a business well.
