The following is from the Heritage Foundations Project 2025 to essentially dismantle the role of the federal government.
I haven’t read it all, but what I have read is pure ultra conservative, naive nonsense mostly because it fails to consider human behavior and relies on their version of what should be means.
What should be is every American is capable of looking out for themselves, is responsible in all aspects of their lives, can fend for themselves, etc.
Good luck with that.
Project 2025 also calls for more responsibility for the states. They reminise over the anti-federalists of the late 18th century who wanted more power for the individual states.
In the context of the Founding Fathers and the 18th century, that made sense.
In the context of the 21st century, with a highly mobile population and a global competitive world, does it makes sense that the availability and quality of healthcare and education, wages, infrastructure rest solely or largely with the individual states?
Regarding the above, yes, health care is a very big exception. It is not like other goods and services.
Consistency is regulation is important to Americans. That is why we have ERISA and other laws.
Consumers do not and should not have to shop for the best deal in health care. Nobody likes interference, but nobody likes unnecessary treatments either. Patients have not controlled health care dollars since before WWII, nor do they want to.
While some insurance employs networks and may require review of some treatments, by far the great majority of care is decided between patient and providers. To assume no oversight is necessary or that patient concern over costs will create efficiencies is just naive, no stupid.
What all this actually argues for, if the objective is access to good health care and fair pricing and payments for all Americans is a …
Single payer system
QUINNSCOMMENTARY 
Once more, with feeling. When asked, a majority of Americans will tell you (or certainly believe but remain silent and vote for Bernie and Pocahontas and others) that they want the best health care YOUR MONEY WILL BUY!
Back in 2008, President Obama was listening.
He appointed Donald Berwick to be the director of CMS (Medicare and Medicaid) in part based on Dr. Berwick’s beliefs in socialized medicine. Earlier, on July 1, 2008, when speaking about the British system, Berwick said:
“… You could have protected the wealthy and the well, instead of recognizing that sick people tend to be poorer and that poor people tend to be sicker, and that any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized, and humane must, must, redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition redistribution. Britain, you chose well.”
He also said: “I am romantic about the NHS; I love it. All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at health care in my own country.”
The correct reform is to appropriate allocate risk and burdens – balancing them among patients, their employers, the providers and taxpayers (notice I DID NOT say government, because government pays nothing) where appropriate:
(1) Everyday stuff, measured in dollars and cents, to the consumer, you cannot shift everyday stuff like food, clothing, housing, transportation, medical, etc. to taxpayers, else you will have waste, fraud, abuse and trigger moral hazard.
(2) Treatment of illness, injury that requires a medical professional, hospital, etc., through health insurance that must be purchased in the public exchange or supplied by an employer, and
(3) For those not covered under Medicare, Medicaid or the VA (where the government sets prices), a taxpayer funded stop loss for everything else that incurs a cost in excess of say $25,000 per year for a participant, using Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement rates.
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Like the left leaning Center for American Progress (CAP) the Heritage Foundation has its blueprint for the country which of course differs greatly from CAP’s–these come out of the woodwork every 4 years and like the Obama folks and Biden people they try to implement some of them as it fits their view of government.
I suspect, like CAP’s proposals, a few will be adopted and most will go by the wayside. Expect to see proposals from Brookings–CATO–and a few others.
Ti’s the season and our friends on the left not wanting to defend illegal immigration at record levels–inflation–crime in our cities –de-funding the police will grasp onto anything to deflect from the misery they have caused. You would think the border invasion would be enough to retire those folks.
great a single payer brought to you by the folks who lied to us about Obama care–what deal they said–all you can eat for $2.50 and any eatery you can find and the chef of your choice–next they will tell us the Post Office will be in charge.
have they put Medicare and Social Security on sound footing yet? just wait until they get their hands on health care for all of us.
I’ll bet these are the same fools who spread disinformation (was it Russian?) or just lied about the health of our Supreme Leader–they got practice with Obama Care and followed up with dementia.
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Al is 100% correct !
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