Obamacare Is Bankrupting Us
Despite recent legislation expanding government-run health programs, we are obligated to continue our work and pointing out the damage and futility of more government spending, more government regulation, and more core of government control over our health sector.
But the next chapter in health reform must be to devolve power away from Washington and restore the doctor-patient relationship.
As Frank Luntz explains from endless research on public opinion, these policies must give the American people:
“The choice and control you want, the affordability you need, the quality you deserve, delivered by the doctors you trust.”
A key goal of our Founding Fathers was to diffuse power among different branches and levels of government to decentralize power.
Over the last century, more and more power has been centralized in Washington, with its massive deficit-finance spending power and controls of rule-making via regulation—tens of thousands of pages written by unelected bureaucrats governing every sector of our society and economy.
Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare were the legislative tools that enabled Washington to dictate nearly every aspect of our health sector.
Most of the power, money, and therefore control over healthcare has been centralized in Washington. But health care is too personal and complex for that kind of centralized decision making.
“The choice and control you want, the affordability you need, the quality you deserve, delivered by the doctors you trust.”
We need to move the power, money, and control back to doctors and patients, through the states who have decades of experience in overseeing their health insurance and healthcare delivery markets. It’s like school choice for health care; you decide because you control the money.
The Constitution requires us to change our approach to health care, not just for the sake of health care, but for the sake of preserving Constitutional integrity. Devolve power to the people, through the states, to create a health sector that responds to their needs for secure, affordable health coverage that gives them access to the doctors and hospitals they want providing the quality care they need.
I have a plan to do that: a new vision for patient-centered health care.
Washington is too bureaucratic and remote to manage something as personal as healthcare. Our plan is to devolve power and control over decisions through the states to doctors and patients, within an energized market that provides people with many more choices of affordable health care and coverage.
Healthcare: How To Break The Healthcare Cartels
Bring back Association health plans for small businesses and community groups.
Create healthcare savings accounts that would cover routine healthcare needs.
Mandating price transparency and getting rid of the middlemen.
