I give the following to Robert F. Kennedy Jr because I believe he is the one person that can incorporate his MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN with this MAKE AMERICAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM GREAT AGAIN. This truly would MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
Firstly, we all get old, we all need healthcare, and we all pay the TOTAL cost of America's healthcare in ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. Our present "system" is not a system at all. It's a haphazard conglomeration of ways of running spending thru unneeded middlemen.
We shortsightedly added layer upon layer of government bureaucracies like Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, Veterans care, local clinics, state-local-and federal government employees heath insurance subsidies from taxpayer money. Private individual and business workplace coverage is forced to run thru "for profit" insurance companies. Fee for service insurance (original Medicare) has a 30% rate of waste, fraud, and abuse.
The big picture is that this amounts to half (50%) of total spending that goes to unnecessary or wasteful spending on middlemen and paperwork that does not go to the actual service provider of our health care.
By eliminating this morass of spending on government programs and insurance companies we can achieve a 90% efficiency rate and have a much better health care system for everyone and do it for much less total spending.
A streamlining of financing and spending from patient to the provider is accomplished by adding the following three sentences to the federal income tax form for individuals and business's.
" Add .07% of your taxable income for individuals or .07% of profit for business . This is your Health Care Tax. This goes to your State Heath Care Alliance Fund and assures you of health care coverage from your pick of participating HMO providers from your State Alliance Fund for the year."
All other government and private business health care spending and financing would be unneeded.
Ending all government health care spending would abolish the need for Medicare and the Medicare tax that coupled with a 5% income tax cut that would equal out to a revenue neutral 7% Health Care Tax.
Removing government health care spending from the "federal budget" would greatly reduce all future federal budget deficits that would not happen by taking the current uncontrollable health care inflation costs from future budgets. It would also very importantly put health care spending on a finite amount available to use.
The income tax filing is a simple, very low cost method, already used by everyone, every year. Nothing could be fairer or more universal. Every ones cost could be figured in minutes.
It returns "Personal Responsibility" to health care again.
Since the tax is based on "taxable income or profit" it would be fair and affordable to everyone. For business, basing the tax on "profit and not payroll" would add an incentive to hiring and employment and company retirement by removing the cost of health care per employee.
Also for employers and employees, it would stop wage stagnation and product inflation by taking employer health care cost inflation out of the economy.
It solves the financing and management of health care in the most efficient way possible by financing with the tax filing (1% of cost), to the State Alliance Fund (2%) to the HMO (7%) for the management.
The State Alliances would be a low cost way to calculate and disperse the money to the HMOs. An alliance of taxpayers, a huge pooling together of consumers to manage the yearly selection of their health care provider. A marketplace of choice for health care consumers.
The HMOs would be a pooling together of local providers into nonprofit HMO groups with the incentive to provide care efficiently and effectively to be rewarded with patient reenrollments. Health care would improve every year.
I personally think that a 7% Tariff on imported goods would be fair to Americans to return the health care tax money lost to foreign business
Also, the State Alliances should provide a catastrophic benefit level to the HMOs paid for by the elimination of all those state health care costs we currently pay out. This would provide HMOs with financial security and stability.*emphasized text*