What is the conservative/libertarian solution for healthcare?

In an ideal world, I would cut medicare and medicaid spending, except carry out the current obligations to those people that are currently on it or the plan. I would return to the system of how it was in the 1950s before government was involved and healthcare was affordable and available to everyone. I wouldn't return to the technology, but the system, yes. Back then, health insurance was only used for the big things like cancer and heart attacks and ambulances, etc. Routine check ups and small appts. were paid for out of pocket. Nowadays, there are more unnecessary screenings and procedures people get that are wasteful because they put it on someone else's bill from insurance. I don't view health care as a right. It's a responsibility for many people to take care of others in need, but its never anyone's right to force someone else to do something for them. The solution is volunteerism. Health care has gotten more expensive directly because the govt. subsidizes it. If you look at anything the govt. subsidizes, it has historically resulted in higher costs because there are more regulations and wasteful spending.

But overall, I think Americans should pay for health care just like they pay for everything like houses, food, clothing, etc. Individuals should be the ones who make decisions about what to buy and not buy.

And for the poor people that cannot afford it, care can be given or paid for by charitable entities. For instance, I know there are doctors that operate for free on homeless people in need.

I think this is one of those issues where the liberals went out on a limb with a controversial policy - the mandate, ironically originally a conservative idea - and the debate got framed around that. I think some conservatives would actually support better regulation of some industries like the pharma industry. Some of the business practices with samples and brand name drugs and kickbacks are downright shady.

I think though the conservative position is that reform should focus on getting costs down, and that's why the opposition to subsidies. Things cost what people will pay, and if the industry knows the subsidy is there, it will get included in the price, and that's the number people will have in mind during the R&D phase when they're coming up with solutions to begin with.

Personally, I hope once the "hot button" issues go away, some committees can be formed and the real issues can be tackled without the parties or liberal/conservative politics being involved at all.

We used to have the best health care in the world. Keeping it in the free market works, our system just became flawed. Competition in the free market can keep costs lower and quality higher.

Universal health care isn't the answer. People talk about Canadians and their "free" health care. There's no such thing. It's just another thing that will rely on our broke government, which is funded by our tax dollars. I once heard a from a Canadian person whose grandmother needed eye surgery because she could no longer see well enough to function. The Canadian government fixed one of her eyes, but wouldn't fix the other because technically the one fixed eye would give her "reasonably functioning eyesight". Said woman had to come to America to get the other one fixed.

Long story short, probably the biggest issue with our health care system is that it has become a corrupted, bureaucratic nightmare. The answer is not to lather on more red tape, i.e. the government. Keep it in the free market and fix it so that it can be what it once was.

I'm an independent libertarian but I think health care should be part of our tax dollars just like roads, schools, bridges and police. When I was in the military we had a very good universal health care plan.

The only thing is if we fund healthcare though tax dollars we should drastically cut all the BS programs we currently fund, like the migration patterns of northeast canadian goose. There are hundreds of billions of dollars invested in BS programs we could cut and bureaucratic jobs who sort papers all day even though we have computers who can do the same thing

Unfortunately, I don't know if universal health care could ever work in the USA where going to the DMV to get a drivers license takes 5 hours because of beaurocratic paper pushers

Libertarian Solution: Cut regulations in order to allow insurance companies to compete nationwide instead of at the state level.

Republican solution: do nothing.

a million)Tax credit to help purchase a coverage. the assumption is greater human beings procuring policies might convey opposition, and reducing the fee. 2) permitting human beings to save out-of-state for scientific coverage plans. at the instant government policies limit this. 3) enable for each guy or woman to pay right into a wellness cost reductions Account. at the instant, government policies make it easier to pay right into a wellness cost reductions Account provided which you purchase the corporate plan.

Make it less socialist and more capitalist.

What's the point in "free" health care if it's crap quality and you have to wait a year for an appointment? Plus, everyone knows nothing is "free". You'll still pay for it with increased tax rates.

If we left it more up to private competition, that natural competition would keep prices down and drive quality up.

Sometimes it's better to pay a little more for something of good quality than pay little for something of bad quality.

De regulate it, and let people get health coverage provided through their job, or through the private market. But no mandatory health coverage for employers.

For starters:

- no mandated coverage for politically motivated coverage (exp. gender change surgery)

- eliminate punitive damages in law suits

- enable all insurance carriers to compete across state lines

- no coverage for non-Americans (from the government)

Free markets and competition.