You are a genius. I told you before that you should run for office.

RUN ALEX, RUN…

Great thoughts!

Here are some other great thoughts and ideas from Ron Paul: http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Ron_Paul_Health_Care.htm

I agree with these 7 ideas and position from Ron Paul on health care: 1. Replace Medicaid with volunteer pro-bono medical care
2. Private medical savings accounts, not government meddling
3. Transfer funds from debt & empire-building to healthcare
We have a mess because a lot of people are very dependent on health care. But we’re going broke, with $500 billion going to debt every single year, and we have a foreign policy that is draining us. I say, take care of these poor people. I’m not against that. But save the money someplace. The only place available for us to save it is to change our attitude about running a world empire and bankrupting this country. We can take care of the poor people, save money and actually cut some of our deficit.
Source: 2007 GOP primary debate in Orlando, Florida Oct 21, 2007

4.
Managed care is expensive and hasn’t worked
Q: What does your health care plan contain to address racial disparities in access to care?
A: We’ve had managed care in this country since the early 1970s, and it hasn’t worked well. It’s very, very expensive, and it’s the fault that we changed our ERISA law and our tax laws that created this corporatism that runs medicine. Wall Street rakes off the profits. The patients are unhappy. The doctors are unhappy. And it’s a monopoly now. Who lobbies us in Washington? The drug companies and the HMOs. They come. And now what is the cry for? Socialized medicine. That’s not the answer. We need to get the government out of the way. Inflation hits the middle class and the poor the most. Those are the people who are losing it. We don’t have enough competition. There’s a doctor monopoly out there. We need alternative health care freely available to the people. They ought to be able to make their own choices and not controlled by the FDA preventing them to use some of the medications.
Source: 2007 GOP Presidential Forum at Morgan State University Sep 27, 2007

5. Voted YES on establishing tax-exempt Medical Savings Accounts.
The bill allows all taxpayers to create a tax-exempt account for paying medical expenses called a Medical Savings Account [MSA]. Also, the measure would allow the full cost of health care premiums to be taken as a tax deduction for the self-employed and taxpayers who are paying for their own insurance. The bill would also allow the establishment of “HealthMarts,” regional groups of insurers, health care providers and employers who could work together to develop packages for uninsured employees. Another provision of the bill would establish “association health plan,” in which organizations could combine resources to purchase health insurance at better rates than they could separately.
Reference: Bill sponsored by Talent, R-MO; Bill HR 2990 ; vote number 1999-485 on Oct 6, 1999

6.Abolish federal Medicare entitlement; leave it to states.
Paul adopted the Republican Liberty Caucus Position Statement:
As adopted by the General Membership of the Republican Liberty Caucus at its Biannual Meeting held December 8, 2000.
• WHEREAS libertarian Republicans believe in limited government, individual freedom and personal responsibility;
• WHEREAS we believe that government has no money nor power not derived from the consent of the people;
• WHEREAS we believe that people have the right to keep the fruits of their labor; and
• WHEREAS we believe in upholding the US Constitution as the supreme law of the land;
BE IT RESOLVED that the Republican Liberty Caucus endorses the following [among its] principles:
1. Free market health care alternatives, such as medical savings accounts, should be available to everyone, including senior citizens.
2. The federal entitlement to Medicare should be abolished, leaving health care decision making regarding the elderly at the state, local, or personal level.
Source: Republican Liberty Caucus Position Statement 00-RLC3 on Dec 8, 2000

Today, we are out of money. We don’t have an extra trillion dollars to cover everyone. We need to reduce costs to be able to extend coverage to every American. Bankrupting the system or rationing treatment is not the answer. Fix it, fix it now. “this message brought to you by my plan to fix health care”

But I don’t see how they address the #1 problem with our health care system. Insurance is just plain unattainable for some people.

Insurance companies refuse to insure people with bad preconditions or drop people once they get sick.

If all of your reforms are enacted, there are still going to be people left out of the system, do you not view that as a problem?