<p>I would mandate decreased prices for medical school (root of doctor shortage, people get in heavy debt for a stressful job- a major concern for doctors). I would base costs on packages, not the amount of treatments given. Electronize medical records, increased incentives for regular checkups, probably take prostate cancer checks off (too inefficient for money), add some stuff that’s supported, take off some stuff…basically make things more efficent. Add a public option- ok, I know what people are saying, but they actually decrease prices because they provide competition to companies. I would probably scrap medicare and medicaid, instead offering reduced prices- too much strain on the system. Figure out some way to make incentives against obesity and smoking (maybe tax breaks if you can quit or lose weight?). Raise taxes to pay for these things (hell, let’s pay for it using a carbon tax and kill 2 birds with one stone… throw in stuff like soda and candy taxes… we need some way to pay for this. I’m against raising taxes for rich ppl).</p>
<p>No death panels here.</p>
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Also, mandated buying of health insurance (lol big part left out), with scaled pricing, similar to taxes.</p>
<p>And no government-run health care. Socialism not good. Public option, however, is not socialism. ;)</p>