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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (14164)	3/31/2012 6:37:28 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

No I'm not. Maybe that's not what your trying to get at, but the way you presented it did conflate both things. Not being insured != "sticking it to the taxpayer. But that's fine, I'd rather address what your actually trying to get at than to play games about who did what when so on to your real question. - I'm wondering how conservatives hope to solve the health care crises. There is no health care crisis. Crisis probably implies a more severe problem over the short term, and definitely implies a specific event, or series of events, or connected events that occur in a limited time. The problem is more long term than it is a crisis. A better question might be "how do conservative hope to deal with (you probably can't totally solve them) the problems with health care? In response to that question well there are a lot of different conservatives and a lot of different ideas from them. So perhaps I should limit to what I would do. It certainly doesn't amount to "a solution", but nothing we can do would be a solution, there will always be problems of one sort or another, you can try to change the specific collection of problems (but might get something different than what you expect and you will still have problems no matter what you do) Some ideas (in no particular order) 1 - Tort reform (exaggerated, sometimes greatly, by some of its proponents, but still beneficial) 2 - Allow full interstate competition in health care. Any person in the US can buy insurance from any insurance company chartered by any state. 3 - Removal of other regulations or laws or government policies that get in the way of competition in health care and/or health care insurance. 4 - Allow, even encourage, insurance against real insurable risks without general cost insulation. 5 - Consider ideas to equalize the tax benefit for employer provided health care insurance and personally brought health care insurance (which could be done by either making personal purchases tax deductible, or by removing the deduction for employer provided insurance).