Quote:The easy fix is to cut the middle man out entirely and insure everyone.

 

In your eyes that might be the "easy fix".  You've made a small bit of progress by acknowledging that there is a health care problem and Obamacare didn't "fix" it.

 

So how would the "easy fix" work?  Perhaps allow people to keep more of the money that they earned tax free and allow them to put it into an interest earning savings account to pay for "routine" medical care?  Then they can purchase true health insurance to cover them in the case of a catastrophic event?  In the event of the death of that person, can they set it up so that the money in their health savings account could be passed on to a spouse/child/anyone else without a "tax penalty"?

 

What does "insure everyone" mean?  Are you saying that "everyone" would be covered in the event of a catastrophic event?  Who pays for that?  Is that not already in place?

 

Look at it this way.  The thug that just got shot on the North side because of some gang war gets taken to the hospital.  He receives the best care there but still dies.  He gets buried and neither he nor his family pays a single penny for it.  Who pays for that?  The ambulance has to be paid for.  The doctors and nurses need to be paid.  The hospital needs to be paid.  The Coroner needs to be paid.  The mortician needs to be paid. etc.  Who pays for that?

 

My point is that taxpayers already pay for those that don't have the responsibility or means to pay for themselves.  The "middle man" is the way that government funneled money to insurance companies with Obamacare.

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