Chanhassen Villager - Health - Comments

If politicians have the

FAdams — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:31:04 -0600

If politicians have the power, they won't give it up.

They have the power. We need them to reform the system so we have it. It's our healthcare.

More competition should be allowed in the market, more choices for consumers and less government intervention.

Let me add to that, I think

FAdams — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:50:12 -0600

Let me add to that, I think we need to get away from the system of tying health insurance to the workplace. When people lose their job, they lose their health insurance. That's bad policy because the Labor Department reports that four in 10 Americans change jobs every year.

There are bound to be people who fall through the cracks.

On top of that, I think that people should have some of their tax money freed up, so they can use it to buy health insurance coverage. And there should be a standard tax deduction for health insurance.

With regards to the question of whether or not politicians will be creative enough to solve the so-called crisis, I think it's not a question of if they have ideas about health care but which ideas are implemented and if those ideas make matters better or worse. Change for the sake of change is not necessarily a good thing. And a lot of the ideas that seem to be popular right now would probably make matters worse,.

Right now our healthcare system is not consumer-friendly, and I'd say probably that politicians aren't inclined to implement changes to make it consumer friendly. Why? Because we see the U.S. Congress trying to convince people that government is, or should be, the answer to all their problems, healthcare included. We see them trying to expand government coverage of children in families earning up to $83,000 a year and children as old as 25 year old. Government-run health care puts politicians in control, turning people into serfs, and giving politicians the power.

I don't agree that health

FAdams — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:01:51 -0600

I don't agree that health care is in crisis. But it does need to change to meet new challenges. It needs to be more market-oriented. People need to have greater access to coverage and more choices.

The free market has the potential to get health insurance costs down.

We need a system that allows people to have more individual control over their health insurance. People need to have more power and control over their health care, so they have incentives to be engaged in managing their health.

Public policy changes need to allow for more free-market solutions.