We can creatively use the free market system and our tax code to revolutionize healthcare to enable each of us to manage our OWN healthcare without medical transaction direction from government, insurance companies or employers. We will drastically reduce costs in doing so. Full Story »
Posted by Ann Wilmer
Though Scharf presents some interesting proposals, he leaves out some key points that could punch a big hole in them. For example, what about employees who don't currently receive employer-paid insurance? Would they receive the pay increases too? If employers can't afford to give them insurance, how will they pay for those? And where will the money come from for the government payments? The piece also suffers from some mangled writing. Despite reading it four times, I still don't understand his second element.
The stray quotation marks that don't seem to relate to anything could be a browser formatting problem. But confusing "less" jobs with the correct "fewer" jobs is just sloppy writing.
Our economy suffers from wasted time spent on administrative procedures by insurers, providers and patients. More »
You think you can't get any consensus now? Try getting your average citizen to understand this proposal. Some good ideas but why are we trying to reinvent the wheel when there are at least a couple of systems out there that already work quite well.
If this is what's coming out of the Wharton School, it's highly over-rated. The number of issues that are misrepresented, false, or simply ignore reality are too numerous to mention.
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