The only way to solve the health care dilemma is via tried and true free market Capitalism.
Let me first admit this will be a shock, but it is better than the alternative.
Either the patient is involved in economic health care decisions or someone else.
That someone else is either an HMO or the Government.
The latter two, not being involved in the actual decision can effect economics by curtailing services or reducing reimbursement.
Already, you cannot have two things cared for at one visit (injections of both sore knee's for example).
The American people do not want this option, yet the option of directly paying for one's health care is never discussed in a significant way.
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We tried TRUE FREE MARKET CAPITALISM, (code no regulations) that is why we are in the mess we are in. There are three entities involved in health care. The consumer, the patient, the insurance company, and of course you could throw in lawyers (malpractice insurance). Until we get all three in a room or four our health care system will bankrupt all companies, when are you going to admit the system is heading for failure. Companies can't afford it for their employes's. Doctor's can't keep paying higher and higher malpractice insurance policy's without passing the costs along, and of course the forgotten bandit in all of this is the health insurance company's charging too high a premium because they have lost money on their investments. A good example is Pacific Life paid way too much for the Grayhawk golf course in Scottsdale and is now losing millions a year on that operation.
Pacific Life is a...wait...life insurance company (not a health insurance company).
Your party is the one supporting the trial lawyers! Terry!
The free market did not create this distortion, government interference and associated price distortions did!
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