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Health Insurance, Capitol Hill & Blogs, Pt.9 – Who needs government, anyway?

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Continuing with the suggestions from blogger ‘Something Beside More Government!!’, who apparently promotes creating ‘affordability’ of health insurance/care by promoting no government intervention at all.

(2) Moving on to ‘malpractice suits’: The experts at the Center for American Progress agree that our malpractice liability system is seriously flawed and needs reform. However, since "malpractice costs represent less than 2 percent of total health insurance/care spending” any claims of this causing a national crises have been ‘overblown’. As far as higher malpractice rates hiking health insurance rates, any correlation between the two is small. Though a noble effort, any benefits toward more affordable health insurance would be minimal, at best. To qualify this opinion, please refer to article #8 in series taken from Gary Kazanjian’s article entitled “Myth Buster 101, Pt.8 – (6) Significance of Malpractice Suits”.

(3) Reduce complexity is a great suggestion. However, who would be the driving force to institute this, if not government? Would a market-driven industry favor losing their ‘differentiation’? Great idea, though.

(4) Scale back the crazy Stark regulations and give entrepreneurial physicians the free hand. Innovation is good, especially when it involves ‘creative capitalism’. As far as the Stark regulations, blogger ‘Anonymous’ has some passionate views on this: “Get rid of Stark? Dude, been there and done that. We all know what happens when docs go unchecked. Are you serious? Do you even know why it came about in the first place?” Check it out, everybody.

(5) ‘Patient-physician transactions’ would this be out-of-pocket payment, selection of elective treatment or physician, medical records…seems vague.

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