Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
You want to make some real progress on health care costs?

Institute some simple changes. Medical school is free but you have to work for a non-profit hospital or practice for 10 years at $50,000 per year. Doctors can make any salary but anything over $250,000 is taxed at 100%. Hospitals and medical groups have to be non-profits and all salaries are capped at $250K per year in the same manner. Drug prices have to reflect the cost to manufacture them plus 1000% profit. (So no more $100 per year drug cost with $65,000 price tag because you have a patent.)

I'm sure there are some other simple ideas. Somebody (or more likely several bodies) are getting rich as Croesus off medicine in this country. It doesn't have to be this way. Plenty of people would still want to be doctors with these restrictions, just fewer people who are only in it for the money.

Once again, the liberal solution is force private business to give away their product. Free medical school? We can call it Obamaschool!

Nothing can save Obamacare. It is an unworkable solution. The real solution is to have the government nationalize all heath insurance companies. That wouldn't work either, but it would accomplish the liberal dream of state run healthcare.

Guys and girls, let's be honest for a minute. The way that this has been implemented is wrong. If there is one part of society that is unqualified to run a conglomerate it is Congress. They bend to the will of the public, they change policy every other year when election season opens up. Look what happened! They tried to implement something good, but something really expensive. The people complained, the states refused and the program is dying a slow painful death. Every time I read that another large insurance company is pulling out of a state I cringe. What is worse than not have something? Losing what you had. You make it seem like it is OK that they lost their insurance, everybody else will pick up the slack. You are wrong! People do not want to pick up the slack, they want things to be the way they were 8 short years ago. It is an uphill battle, and the left is losing. I hope that the Obamacare replacement legislation fails. That would just about ensure that Obamacare will fail under its own weight.

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