Three Simple Options for
a Public Option HealthCare Plan
1. Improve the current Medicare by having Medicare to offer
its own Medicare Supplement and to also begin issuing a real, replaceable ID number (in order to stop using a person’s SSI number
to immediately reduce fraud) then slowly extend the Medicare option to all Americans, allowing them to purchase Healthcare coverage
from Medicare.
2. Same as above, but move Medicare out of Government hands to be run by the public
as a non-profit public insurance company.
3. Same as #1 above, but allow the Public Option portion
to be run by the current insurance companies, as non-profit companies. Allow these companies to make a profit by improving the
health of their policy holders and allowing them to keep some of the money that they save, but not to profit by victimizing patients
and providers. They could even be allowed to compete against each other. The companies with the healthiest clients could keep
a proportionately larger share of the “profits”.
Imagine: Profit potential aligned with healthcare outcomes!
Talk
to your representative. They have not a clue. There are so many rational options.
Mark E. Green MD