If a Republican with a national following, like Christie, or Jeb Bush, or Jindal, or Corker, or Walker - there are lots of them - came out in favor of national health care, he would walk away with the next presidential election. Our health care system is so fouled up it cannot be fixed, except by amputation. The first thing to do is to amputate all of the various insurance companies charging administrative fees and overhead in competing to provide the exact same services. Whether you get your insurance through BCBS or Aetna or Cigna or United Health you get the same medical services from your doc or hospital. Why have all these different entities and different systems for the same services?
Create a tax to pay for health care services, but structure the tax to incentivize taxpayers to be healthy. The national health care agency would also reimburse docs and hospitals to incentivize them to cure patients, rather than treating them over and over for the same condition.
A Republican who adopts this platform will be a winner.
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