I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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I believe that free-market principles will solve our healthcare problems.
People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the financial consequences.
Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that.
We don't have a business model for health care in this country, We just have a business model for care. The way doctors and hospitals get paid is something bad has got to happen. It's a pure reactive model.
Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.
My contention is that if we expand the patient-centered health care approach, we'll have less people that have to go the medical clinic that provides free service or go to the emergency room - they can have their own health care plan.
We think healthcare costs should be going down, not up. We think people should be able to keep insurance that they had.
There should be choice in healthcare.
We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.