Shifting the cost of healthcare does not lower prices - it merely changes who pays the costs. A “single-payer” health system is a government-controlled health care system. Government is the “single-payer.” In most versions of single-payer, most private health insurance is either outlawed or restricted, and most public health programs are absorbed into the single, national health insurance program.
My plan for healthcare is to:
Allow insurance companies to offer plans that cross state lines;
Adopt policies that will create more price transparency so that patients know what the cost of healthcare services really are;
Create more competition which lowers prices;
Enact tort reform to lower the cost of liability insurance for medical professionals.
I believe the key to lowering the cost of healthcare must come from free market solutions - not government bureaucracy.
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