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Reform Health Care By Setting People Free

By Doug Bandow on 8.5.09 @ 4:21AM

John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis tells us how to reform heath care by setting people free.  For example, number two is setting patients free:

Many patients have difficulty seeing primary care physicians. All too often, they turn to hospital emergency rooms, where there are long waits and the cost of care is high. Part of the reason is that third-party payer (insurance) bureaucracies decide what services patients can obtain from doctors and what doctors will be paid. To correct this problem, patients should be able to purchase services not paid for by traditional health insurance, including telephone and e-mail consultations and patient education services. This can be done by allowing them to manage more of their own health care dollars in a completely flexible Health Savings Account.

Of course, before setting us free Congress must reject proposals for a government medical takeover.