Health Care Plan..for everyone.

[marine4003]

The Solution for Funding Health Care for Everyone. Funded by 1% National Sales Tax

No Insurance Required

Budget Neutral + No Entitlements + Single Payer

Not Government Run, but Government Paid (1% Ear Marked Tax—Single Payer). Health Decisions made by Doctors and Patients. Everyone Covered. No Denials. Everyone Pays.

This plan does not require health insurance by businesses, or individuals.

Example: Cost of a gallon of milk = 3.00. Your payment towards health care = 3 cents.
On the other hand if health insurance is purchased from an insurance company, then the cost would be 300.00 per month or more. That’s = 3600.00 per year + deductibles + co-pays + bureaucracy + denials, etc.

The Solution:

1. Institute a 1% national sales tax ear marked for health care only.
a. No more health insurance premiums for anyone, businesses or individuals.
b. No more duplication of services, overly compensated insurance co. executives and
bonuses.
c. No more confusing complicated
plans/supplements/options/exchanges/triggers/parts a, b, c, d, etc.
d. No more packed emergency rooms.

2. Doctors/Hospitals simply submit their bills and get paid.
a. Bills are processed by IRS or former insurance companies.
b. Doctors are not told what to charge.
c. Costs are controlled by the elimination of excessive profits and duplication.
d. Costs Guidelines are published by the use of "Should Cost Studies" and updated
yearly.
e. Cost guidelines are not enforceable by law.
f. Costs are controlled by peer pressure of other doctors, media, should cost studies,
and jawboning.

3. Everyone pays based upon their rate of consumption, from a quart of beer at a
convenience store, to the purchase of a BMW or Yacht.
a. No class warfare pitting one group against another.
b. Everyone has a stake in their health and pays their share.

4. No one would have to be without health care.
a. Everyone would have "The Same Plan".
b. No freeloaders.
c. More than budget neutral, it would be a budget multiplier. Tourist and illegals
would be contributing by their purchases.

1% paid incrementally through purchases verses paying thousands per year to insurance companies, padding the pockets of executives with excessive profits, and their employed doctors and lawyers, whose salaries’ and time could be going towards health care, instead of the attendant bureaucracy of doling out health care and denial letters.

Shifting funding to the rich or business owners is not the answer. They are the exact group that provides jobs to us all. Let's let everyone pay their own bit and give them a feeling of having a stake in their health care rather than making them dependent. 3 cents on a quart of milk will add up if everyone pays.

The only responsibility the government should have is doing the "Should Cost Studies," publishing the subsequent guidelines, collecting the tax money, and paying the bills. We don't need any laws that pit one group against another, that tell doctors what to charge, or force individual citizens to buy insurance with the associated waste of duplication and excessive profits. The best policy is to keep it simple. That will go a long way towards preventing gaming of the system. Complex laws, rules, plans, exchanges, triggers, and parts are just mechanisms to frustrate, control the people, build bureaucracy, and provide avenues for fraud.

Everyone has a right to pursue a bigger boat, but no one has a right to better Health Care than another.

[Big Fish Billy]

Sounds good to me.......

[Deep C]

Now don't you go messing up my run at the presidency... Always been a fan of a plan would call for no more income tax. Rather a flat national sales tax or VAT as its called in countries that do so well with it.

[canyongear]

That's too simple, they can't get simple...it has to be complicated to hide the "other" crap that ends up costing double..

Great idea..might actually balance something, who knows what..of course they will find a way to spend it or leverage the excess by issuing more debt to spend more on something they need.

[clt_capt]

The bastids in Washington can't keep their fingers out of the cookie jar - They would tap into the 1% to give themselves raises and the like.

But I like the idea.

[Capt. Jon Tennant]

word on the back street is a national sales tax is already coming.... when the true numbers come out for the Health Care Reform bill that was just passed, your going hear alot more about it.

[offshore]

Not going to happen there is nothing there for the government to F up!! Well maybe there is!! They could steal the monies from the 1% tax for pet projects!!

[Capt. Jon Tennant]

Its going take a national sales tax just to keep this country from going busted with the burden the Health Reform is going to place on it.... & the numbers I've heard being tossed around have been larger than 1%. The biggest surprise to most will be finding out that Obama and his crew have know all along a national sales tax would be needed and has been planning and counting on this from the start.

[obxfish]

They already have that in Canada where they have nationalized their health care too, its called a GST, or goods and services tax, and its a hell of a lot more than 1%. We are heading that way. Bunch of ass wipes in Washington voting for bills that we cant afford.

[marine4003]

I often wondered if there wasn't a branch of the Govt that was infallible, one that might pull off collecting and distributing the moneys..Like the bureau of printing & engraving or similar entity..small, low key. hire some former IRS accountants..perhaps pass legislation protecting the balance from ever being used for ANYTHING other than its intended purpose....Yea , i know...never gonna happen.
But, i'm no genus..just a carpenter..and this seemed like a great solution.