Figured I'd share my view on Obamacare!
- No one should ever be denied coverage. Period. We need a single-payer, Medicare for all system. I am glad Obamacare has raised those insured but it penalizes the poor with a tax penalty up to 4%.
- If we really want costs to decrease, we would...
- Put caps on silly spending... eg. bag of IV sterile H20... $1 to produce. Hospital charges ... $800. Fraudulent and unethical.
- Single payer - 1/3 of our costs are administrative costs. That's ridiculous. It doesn't go to our health per se.
- Work on preventative measures like labeling products with GMO's, putting calorie diet in school lunches, etc
- I am glad every child has Medicaid and every mother has it while pregnant.
- Still DISGUSTED that we allow over 40k people die because of no health care. Health care is a RIGHT, not a PRIVILEGE. Charlie is a straight A 8th grader. Joe is a failing student. Both have parents, but Joe's are richer. Joe is entitled to better car just because of that. Not fair.
- Subsidize medical school - Make it free unless you dropout. Incentive. Ensure pay is high as sadly money does make the world spin.
- I don't like the ACA's plan to expand government intervention in health care via FDA, DEA, etc. A few bureaucrats make the decision for doctors now and it's not fair. A doctor should have a fully autonomous health-care relationship with their patient with no intervening.
- Scheduling of drugs like Norco to Schedule 2 a stupid idea... Heroin use has gone up 27%.
- Putting quarterly caps on how much of a product can be made per quarter is thoughtless. Eg. T3 running out last quarter, leading T4 to take its spot.
- Making marijuana illegal hurts more than it helps. Marijuana legalization leads to safer cities, and can cure a wide array of diseases, include marijuana without THC. Due to its anxiety-relief, analgesic, sleepiness, and eating control, it has massive health benefits. We enable cartels to kill by prohibition.
- Make it federal law to take Fluoride out of our water. To me that's a health issue.
- Increase autonomy of Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner.
- Obamacare doesn't do enough to expand rural health care in a nation whose rural Midwestern former small cities are now nothing, with no hospitals or health care.
- Obamacare's complimentary measures that agree with the DSM 5 is sick. The DSM 5 is a for-profit joke.
- ICD-9 needs to be ICD-10. Everyone else has changed.
- Increase mental health government sponsored facilities and incentive social workers, counselors, therapists, with tuition/fee/room/board free college.
- Double amount of money government spends on health care research. Include Stem Cell Research.
- Dump new abortion laws that have taken place and bring laws back to what they were in 1996.
- Increase use of herbal and holistic medicines like Kava and Kratom for pain relief. Like Canada, make Tylenol 2 with Codeine legal. We regulate things that only cause the underground market to splurge.
- Decrease patent on medications to 5 years; if groundbreaking, subsidize while retaining patents for the period.
- Halt advertisement for medications on television.
- Spend money on making addiction-proof. Ban pharmaceuticals from paying subjects to be "lab rats" on new anti depressants that we don't need. Create more required phase trials to be undergone before approving (of most meds)
- Stop the growth of antibacterial causing immunity.
- Use health care budget to fund homeless shelters for food and shelter, free to all. Decreased costs in Utah by 57%.
- Quit prioritizing new antidepressants an start prioritizing on AIDS/HIV vaccinations. Hold very strict tort laws to psychiatrists.
- Expand knowledge specialists receive on risky issues in universities.
- Subsidize pet therapy.
- Increase alcohol prices on 12 pack + by $1
- Decrease sin tax on cigarettes - Because it hurts the poor.
- Fight obesity. Required P.E. all years of school including private. Nutritional information course required.
- Ban Pharmaceutical Reps. All.
OKAY!! Haha you may wonder how some of these apply to Obamacare? Because I believe government should take a smaller role in health care when it comes to doctor-patient relationships, but a bigger role in preventative care and lack of enforcement and condemnation of certain practices through tax hikes, etc.
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