What should have happened regarding HC reform

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Instead of Congress meddling with the private sector and creating this 2000 page piece of crap they should have instead done this.

Fully fund current Medicare and cover 100% med/dental/vision by removing the income contribution cap which is currently around $100K annual salary. Leave up to the $100K mark and pick up income deductions stating again at $250K per year thus creating a "donut hole" affect allowing for no deduction from 100K to 250K.

Expand Medicare coverage as a buy-in option for everyone.
Phase it in if they have to for infrastructure development.

If Congress would focus strictly on this and dial-in a government health insurance choice instead of the convoluted nonsense they are working on then we would have a real choice.

Leave the private sector alone.
Congress should not have gotten their hands in that mess but then again we know that their corporate masters want them to mess this up. We know that the medical-corporate-complex has spent $120 million so far this year in lobbying to muddy this up in their fight against what I have described above.


my 2 cents

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1. I think in the long run that is the answer but right now many doctors are refusing medicare patients

Doctors are used to the big bucks insurance companies pay and feel slighted by Medicare..It really is becoming a problem and unless all Health Care were to be under the same umbrella those problems will persist.

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2. that is a bad incentive for sure

The insurance companies try to squeeze as much as they can from us in order to attract Doctors with highest payout offers.

That is my understanding of the game.

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3. kick

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