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Find freedom with health care
Here’s how we could fix health care. Bring it into the free market. Allow employers to put what they pay for an employee’s policy into a health care savings account in the employee’s name. Allow the money to accrue indefinitely and not be lost if not used. That money could grow and pay for health care. That money should only be used for health care. You could then buy insurance with it or use it to pay your health care costs yourself.
Most policies for a family of four costs tens of thousands of dollars every year. What could you do with that kind of money if you needed it? You should also be able to purchase catastrophic insurance to cover the cost of health care that would be way more than anyone would ever have in their accounts.
These accounts should be allowed to be passed down to heirs when a person dies and be rolled into their own health care accounts. If we got the insurance companies out of the equation and allowed people to shop around for medical treatment then competition would once again be part of the equation as well. Just privatize health care and get government as much out of it as possible!
Rob Leach
Mica