Cool. Thanks!

The title is about curing a healthcare crisis, but the content comes down mostly to one items: Stop treating healthcare as a crisis in need of a gov't cure.

BTW, I really liked #13. I thought of it several years ago, and I haven't seen the idea anywhere else.

The simple version is that if you divided the number of under/non insured pts like a panel and allowed drs to deduct the care off out gross at the end of the year max cost 40% on dollar if limited to say 50k of office based care for a year per dr most would be willing as we write off more than that as uncollectable all the time. For meds used tax dect based vouchers that the pharmaceuticals co can deduct etc more complicated than this but this is the overall basis

Would you mind sharing it here? It is certainly as worthy a look as anything the politicians can come up with! ;)

As for posting prices keep in mind what we would charge a self pay pt is often very different from insurance billing though medicaid has made it illegal for us to charge self pay less than a medicaid pt !

Nice start. I have actually came up with a plan that would cover the uninsured and underinsured for a cost of 40 cents on the dollar and have it be a benefit to the Doctors as well. Amazing how hard it is to get politicians to pay attention since the control is with the drs not the govt.