@barumonkey I would imagine you would have to create a sort of review committee at the hospital or by region or something. There’d be no way to ensure it was always fair and always correct, best you could do is ensure members don’t sit the board for too long and there are doctors, nurses, and maybe some private citizens on it. Kind of like democracy, not a really great form of government, but the best we’ve got.
@evelyns_pet_zebra I would love nothing more than to have a “fair society” where everyone got the perks and no one rode the bottom of the bubble. Unfortunatly, short of solving the problems inherent in Communism, I don’t see that happening. Truth is, the best you can do is create an enviornment where competition exists for customers, in this case Health Insurance, lower the costs of care to make prevmiums more affordable and continue to encourage people to sign up through tax incentives or education.
Generally the most I would support is a government funded system that provided some measure of basic preventative care at a minimum for children, possibly adults. I would say things like sports physicals for school sports, basic immunizations, annual check-ups for kids, annual dental checkups… those things I would be behind. I might even support a voucher system where the government helps poorer people pay for basic care for things discovered in these physicals like cavities. In fact, I think a voucher system is a decent compromise; I haven’t thought it all the way through yet but it seems this way Liberals can feel like the government is helping the poor and Conservatives can feel like the government isn’t running healthcare. It’d probably be cheaper too.
Finally, the members of Congress do have a pretty great healthcare program as well as some other sweet perks. My only issue with revoking some of the perks of office is that I don’t know how else you can recruit talent. If you cut their pay, take their benefits, and reduce their perks you can’t expect the best and the brightest would run… hell, I’m not sure they do now with all the benefits they are given. We can preach all day about sacrifice and patriotism, but truth is until we fix [most] people’s desire for prestige and/or wealth it’ll stay the same.