How would you REFORM our broken HEALTHCARE SYSTEM??!!

Repeal and Replace!

Obamacare has been an abortion. We could have universal healthcare with 15 page proposal versus Obama's 2700 page bill and 13,000+ pages of rules and regulations.

First I would ask professionals in the industry. That's the one thing the dumbocrats never did.

You have to fully understand a problem in order to fix one.

They didn't bother to understand the problem.

Then start over with a consumer based system.

Just start over. Where are all the free clinics? I think they are a terrific idea...and travelling doctors. Its a great way for MD's to do their internships. If you want to become a doctor in the U.S., one should have to 'service' work to America in the form of volunteering.

and in addition get rid of Michelles spending habits. We'd then be able to afford some serious medical attention for some needy individuals.

FIRST , git rid of Obama! then repeal law and start over. dont let just one party have all the say in it. AND ABOVE ALL LET THE VOTERS . VOTE ON WHAT THEY WANT!!!

thats the biggest mistake they made.so vote the bastards out!

Well the health care was put together by republicans and democrats. This was not a one party thing and people are listening to sound bites and there is no facts in most sound bites. Sound bites Are used to cause confusion.

An Insurance pool would work, I think. I think we should start small and see how it goes, if we jump into this massive healthcare bill and it doesn't work we'll never be able to get rid of it.

Hit the wrong button again. Hate these stupid polls. That being said, I would lift regulations on factories to a minimum. I would create any situation necessary for Businesses to create jobs. I would get rid of ALL Unions. Put as many people back to work as possible and then start doing away with Welfare. Welfare recipients are the biggest drain on our Healthcare system of anything. Illegal Aliens, American Citizens that are too lazy to work. They are all leeches, that drain our society, of taxes, Healthcare, food. If a State wants Welfare, they can draw up their own plan
Put caps on what can be charged by Dr.s, Hosp., and therefore Ins Co.s. Dr.s and Hospitals charging exhorbitant rates is the reason for Ins rates so high.

How about NO waivers for any person or groups. I mean everyone...all politicans that is for sure. If we are required to purchase this folly then everyone should be included. Much more money would be raised.

I think Everyone should be on whatever Healthcare System we wind up with!! Politicians ESPECIALLY!!! But Raising Money should NEVER have anything to do with our Healthcare!!!

What I meant was that if EVERONE had to purchase insurance (no exceptions) that there would be more money put in the system to take care of all patients.

If each person took care of their own Medical needs, there would be no need for a "system" to handle it. We have TOO many freeloaders. Welfare, Illegal Aliens, etc and WHY should the rest of us have to pay for their Medical. THAT is what is wrong with the system.

I think that we are saying almost the same thing..

I just objected to the word system as it was used. It sounded too much like a Central system that pd the bills for us. We just all had to pay into that "SYSTEM"

As you say it, the system is the government trying to pay for everything. Pesos are not the currency the last time that I looked but our currency is lmost as worthless as pesos.

I think this Bill is a beginning and certainly it can be tweaked and improved. If the Republicans would do that instead of being hell bent on "tearing it up by its roots" as Boehner insists, without offering one alternative or solution themselves, perhaps we could get a handled on the rising costs, which themselves are driving up the increased premiums and care.

Replacing it with a risk pool, tort reform, and full interstate insurance competition

Let EVERY insurance Company compete in EVERY state in stead from now on! Because the MORE competition there is-the lower the rate of any kind of insurance!

Well so far the insurance companies are not competeting and that is the problem. The fact is some pay $21.00 in Massachuette with health care. That is what Obama patterned his health care plan after .

Thats only because these idiots in Congress refuse to pass any laws letting ALL insurance companies compete in EVERY state up to now!

band-aids cost almost that amount...

Because those dumb ass Liberals in Congress wanted total Control of our own personal health care instead!

What you just said makes no sense. I just want the health care that the congress has and I will be satisfied because our tax dollars are paying for it.

Maybe thats only because your so blind now, you can't even see whats going on before your own eyes at this point !

Well I see more then you realize but if I am blind you are in serious trouble because without conservative help the health care would not have passed.
And this plan was patterned after a so call conservative as well as they helped put it together.

LOL! Its still the same taxes Obama LIED ABOUT for the last three years anyway! Two wrongs never made a right partner!

I have to give you that one two wrongs never made a right. So are you saying that Romney is better or the same ?

Yet it seems Romney is really the only chance we have, to scrap this nightmare new Obama care taxes anyway!

Then we are in trouble Romney tried to tax blind people when he was governor.

No question about it. Than start to look into things like tort reform.

Most states like ours, have had TORT for years. There are caps on what a patient may sue for, even those who have a wrong kidney removed. How do you put a price on that?

There should be caps on what the Dr and Hospital can charge. My Husband had a Pacemaker put in. The Charge for that was $65,000.00. To me that is OUTRAGEOUS!!! And under Obamacare, he won't get another one, if that one breaks down.

Where do you get that information from?

From the Healthcare bill. Or were you talking about the cost of the Pacemaker?

Mostly where your husband will not be able to replace his Pacemaker? If you have insurance already and it covered it before, nothing is going to change. We can keep what we have. What you might want to consider, that if your insurance company as a result of paying for the pacemaker in the first place, previously before, they would be able to drop him, or raise your premiums and any other insurance company wouldn't have to take him because of a pre-existing condition.

That has all chanced now and none of that will not happen when the Plan takes effect in 2014,

He is on Medicare and VA

In the first place, kudos to you for being able to understand what the dickens I wrote. Geesh, I re-read my reply to you and I had a hard time seeing my own point. LOL

The bottom line is simply that nothing will change for those of us who carry insurance. Those who have never bothered carrying insurance for whatever reason will be expected now to do so. That includes but not limited to those who use the ER for their doctor's visits and who cannot by law be turned away. That is where the penalty comes in. The result will be that billions of dollars of insured who carry the burden of the uninsured will hopefully drive down costs.

I understand more than you know what heart problems can do. My husband had an attack when he was 57 and had to be airlifted to a hospital while we were on vacation. We have always been able to have insurance and I shudder to think what we would be paying on, or losing had we not. I know its stressful because it never really leaves your mind.