The Hirota Administration: Healthcare

Nearly every problem currently at issue with our Federal Government can be solved simply. BUT, since elected office has become like winning the lottery, the useful idiots in Washington have to think of ever-creative and confusing ways to keep YOU, the voters, ignorant. All this so that they can keep their jobs....by appearing busy and intelligent.

Think about it: the healthcare bill (Obamacare) is WELL over 2200 pages of legalease, while the Constitution of the United States AND The Bill of Rights are a WHOPPING two pages.

There's a lesson here, folks....

Whether fixing healthcare, taxes, spending....WHATEVER, "fixes" can be boiled down to a two-step or three-step process.

I have no doubt that "Obamacare" will be declared unconstitutional. Why? Because it IS unconstitutional: our Federal Gocernment cannot require the purchase of healthcare (or anything else, for that matter).

When Obamacare is relegated to the ash heap of history, it'll be time for REAL, ACTUAL, SUBSTANTIVE healthcare reform.

Here's the two-step process:

1. Agressive tort law refrom. Greater than 80% of healthcare costs are due to "defensive medicine" (Doctors perfroming EVERY possible test on patients, thus merely reducing the chance that they will be sued). BETTER THAN EIGHTY PERCENT, FOLKS! Now, will tort reform eliminate that 80%? No. Malpractice still happens. But severely reducing that whopping number will inevitably severly reduce healthcare costs.

2. Portability. Opening interstate competition for private healthcare insurance will have a two-fold affect:
- Decrease in the price of insurance. (This is proven time and time again in EVERY other industry).
- Increase in the level of service. Again, when companies compete for business, service levels increase.

Folks, it's an odd irony: Democrats wanted Obamacare because they stated, emphatically, that they wanted to screw "big insurance". In fact, Obamacare will be a WINDFALL to the insurance companies. Imagine owning a business and suddenly, EVERYONE is REQUIRED to buy your product! And your medicines. AND your services....

If voters REALLY want to screw "big insurance", then they ought to attack their two most aggressively lobbied 'sacred cows'....the two things "big insurance" NEVER wants touched: PORTABILITY AND TORT LAW.