{"id":378,"date":"2010-03-04T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.142:8080\/2010\/03\/04\/solution-to-health-care-reform\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T06:58:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T10:58:40","slug":"solution-to-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/04\/solution-to-health-care-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Solution to Health Care Reform??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about Health Care and our free market capitalist solution.  I don&#8217;t think its fundamentally flawed the way some talking heads do, but I do think we&#8217;ve never made an official strategy that recognizes that we are using a capitalist system to run health care.  So my idea of reform, with the understanding that knowledgeable consumers in a free market can drive down costs, is to increase transparency in the PRICE of health care. If you feel sick and go to the ER; they&#8217;ll barrage you with tests as per normal and run you to do a blood test, MRI, and CT Scan for your mild case of the sniffles.  To make the prices more transparent, someone will say to you beforehand, &#8220;This test will cost you or your insurance company $x&#8221;. Even if insurance is footing the bill, you now known how much these things really cost.  Ideally, more people would then be informed as to their choice AND have a CONTEXT to start the conversation about alternatives.  Further on, as more people decide they don&#8217;t need MRI tests, there will be less demand for the MRI&#8217;s and the price would subsequently go down.<\/p>\n<p>I welcome your comments.<\/p>\n<div class='lj-moods-meta'><b>Current Mood:<\/b> busy<br\/><b>Current Music:<\/b> WCSR, Hillsdale<br\/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about Health Care and our free market capitalist solution. I don&#8217;t think its fundamentally flawed the way some talking heads do, but I do think we&#8217;ve never made an official strategy that recognizes that we are using a capitalist system to run health care. So my idea of reform, with the understanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}