Our Federal Government is trying as fast as it can to socialize the health care systems of the United States. Amazingly, they have ignored and hidden a free market alternative from the Mayo Clinic. In May of 2009, Congress was presented with a complete package of viable, detailed, long term solutions that would not only reform Medicare, but would also establish affordable private health care for all Americans. These proposals are cost neutral when paid for with the savings from Medicare reform. What is now the law of the land, will not only shift a majority of all health care and its decision making into the control of our government, but it will also push our country closer to insolvency because of its unfunded and factually unknown costs.
Congress rejected the Mayo Clinic's proposals for three possible reasons: 1) Control over billions of dollars of revenue would have been removed from the government's coffers to the private sector 2) True decision making of health care choices would have been taken away from the government and would have been given back to the people and their providers. 3) This is a foundation to redistribute the wealth of 20% our economy. It seems politicians are choosing to keep their financial power and control over our lives instead of supporting an honest, free market resolution to our nations health care crisis, today.
In May 2006, a group of 250 participants created the non-profit organization: The Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center (HPC). The HPC represents the entire spectrum of today’s complex health care systems, government and the patients they serve. Over the last three years, these industry leaders have consulted with thousands of other national representatives to resolve this crisis themselves. The time and money invested has been motivated not by profit or prestige, but for better patient care, the long term viability of the agencies and systems involved and a lot of American pride.
Thefour cornerstones of their proposals apply to both Medicare and private health care. 1) Create value 2) Coordinate care 3) Reform the payment system 4) Offer a voluntary private health insurance plan to all Americans (not mandated). Their proposals are cost neutral when paid for with the savings from Medicare reform. I respect the author's credentials of this plan and will endorse their proposals as submitted by the HPC.
This is factual evidence that private American ingenuity can fix a multi trillion dollar nightmare like this in a timely and cost effective manner. This also appears to be proof that our elected officials are not truly interested in solving our national problems and preventing our country from going bankrupt. Now we must elect a President who is willing to make politically unpopular decisions and break away from the status quo and the lobbies that have a stranglehold on our government. I will encourage and support initiatives like these, so that together, we can give our children a country that is in better shape than what was given to us.
Reduce Government
Miller for President P. O. Box 414
Austin, Mn. 55912