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Originally Posted by Platapus
So do these teabaggers offer any practical solutions?
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Here's a few off the top:
1. Expand health savings accounts.
2. Allow individual consumers to deduct the cost of their health insurance from their taxable income, just as their employers do.
3. Controls on medical malpractice suits.
4. Allow individuals to buy insurance across state lines.
5. Allow like groups to combine their numbers to buy large group health insurance policies.
6. Expand the treatment authority of nurse practitioners
7. End state imposed insurance mandates that drive insurance costs up.
This ain't all inclusive either. These ideas are much better than what the Democrats have put forth. These ideas above serve to create an environment for independence, self sufficiency, and dignity for the consumer and taxpayer. The Democrats only build plans that create dependence on the government, and burdens on taxpayers. One thing Democrats cannot allow is people to feel self-sufficient and independant. Hard to keep people shallow, weak, feeble, fearful, and on the government plantation that way.