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.
Our economy suffers from wasted time spent on administrative procedures by insurers, providers and patients.
This is one of many good points Scharf makes in the piece.
tweaking the free market system to achieve our goal, with government assistance but without medical transaction direction from insurance companies, government or employers.
This plan does not strike me as a “tweak,” but as a fairly major overhaul with a lot of unanswered questions. Scharf also buys in to the oft-repeated, but demonstrably untrue claim that current health insurance reform plans would direct health care transactions—though he is correct that insurers do.
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.