More than Ever We Need Consumerisim in Health Care NOW!

After watching the video of the unlock consumerisim in health care sponsored by AFP-Wisconsin, we need more than ever to adapt and embrace a consumer driven health care system not go to government run health care.

1. HSA's Must Be Tax Deductible-HSA programs like what they have in Manitowoc County rocks. Bob Ziegelbauer is winning praise in both political parties for finding innovative solutions that work for all people like free market health care. Ziegelbauer has just about set the model for the entire world on how consumerisim in health care should work. Bob Ziegelbauer's model should be looked at by the school districts too. This is perhaps the only way to solve our health care crisis.

2. Price Transparancey is Impartive-You deserve to go to the health care provider you want to go, but you should be given full disclosure of health care prices, say for example you should be given the price on how much if you need braces for your teeth before you go to the right orthodontist. I had braces recently, but my family and I made the decision on the right ortho based on who is good for one, and two transparancey on prices. If the ortho is good, but charges $1000 less than ortho X and Y then in a free market you should go to that ortho.

3. Associated Health Care Pools Make Sense-Small Buisnesses should have the right to buy in a bigger pool to provide better health care for all. This can and will help small buisnesses provide health care, while those who cannot afford it can go on subsidized health care.

4. Target Medicaid, and if possible outsource it-Medicaid is a poorly managed government program and with the increasing fraud that happens in medicaid it is impartive to end all the abuse, and stop charging hospital taxes that do not end up funding medicaid. Medicaid is becoming a joke as it is wasting taxpayer money. If we subsidize the indigent on health care that is overseen by a management health care company, then we are going to insure all people.

5. Encourage Early Health-A free market encourages early health care like eating right, exercising, stop smoking, and HSA's provide incentives for losing weight, stopping smoking, and if you provide incentives, you will empower people to make better decisions for their health over government bureaucrats. It should be between you and your doctor to make the best health care decisions, not HMO's like Unity or United HealthCare who sap the right to free choice.

6. HSA's have financial rewards, say you do not end up spending all of it, you can keep it, and use it for something useful like your own retirment.

According to Bob Ziegelbauer, HSA's allow anyone to see a doctor for no copays, it gives you the choice of a cash bonus or a dental plan/vision plan, now who does not want to have incentive for staying healthy. This is far better than what is happening in Canada and Sweden in which people are waiting to get cancer treatments, and in the UK in which the Labour Party is cutting the National Health Service in half. No wonder David Cameron slams Gordon Brown to the ground on why we need to have health for all without government run health care sapping free spirit.

For more info, go to http://www.bobziegelbauer.com and click on local news, you will find everything you want to know on the successes in Manitowoc, but also talk to your employer and demand that HSA's are part of your workplace. Once HSA's become the norm, this health care crisis will become a thing of the past.