Educated medicine versus socialism. New mandates over individual freedom. Federal than state. Obamacare over” If you like your doctor, you can stay it”.
It’s the same damned medical discussion you’ve heard a zillion times previously. Obviously, one’s had any novel ideas since the Nixon leadership.
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However, Americans are extremely souring on their care. As Gallup noted in 2023,” For the first time in Gallup’s two-decade pattern, less than half of Americans are pleasant about the quality of U. S. healthcare”, with a majority that “rate healthcare quality as subpar, including 31 % saying it is’ just good’ and 21 % — a new high — calling it’ bad.'”
Americans spend more money on healthcare than any other powerful nation, which is particularly enraging.
The rate keeps rising, and the excellent keeps dropping.  ,
It’s gotten to the point where it’s so complicated and perplexing that nobody can also wrap their head around the issue. It’s just too great. During the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis, some lenders were declared” to large to fail”. Also, our present medical system seems” to big to fix”. The social cupboard is empty, with the exception of seeking for a special AI solution or throwing more money at it.
No one from either group is introducing something new.
But I think I figured out a solution that thrusts costs, lowers fees, increases selection, and makes care more affordable. There would even be no longer be that much governmental bureaucracy.
No, I’m not a dentist. ( Never even aired one on television. ) Nor have I ever worked in a clinic. But maybe that’s the key to truly fixing this disaster: Stop pretending it’s a skilled problem!
And otherwise, treat it like it’s an economical problem.  ,
Capitalism, child! Supply and demand, lack and deficit, free markets and buck voting. All we need to do is increase the number of physicians, and then encourage those physicians to see more clients and charge less.
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But how?
There are only about 1.1 million specialists in our whole country. First of all, we may significantly increase the clinical workforce! How can you encourage more students to enroll in medical class?
Easy-peasy: Pass a laws declaring that anyone who attends medical college between now and, say, 2035 won’t have to pay federal income tax on their medical function for the next 30 years.
It’s not at all unusual for skilled professionals to go through periods of scarcity and deficits. For instance, my dad is a retired doctor. When he went to medical university, there was a lack of anesthesiologists, but thousands of incoming individuals entered the field — and the pay was excellent. But finally, to several entered, and the wages for anesthesiologists were severely affected.
Obviously, medical students are flexible to market problems and/or the beauty of the almighty dollar. We simply need more of them, and the best way to get them is through their cards.
Find the IRS off their tails.
Besides, lots of the taxes levied against medical professionals don’t make much sense anyhow: The same government will pay with one finger, duty with another — and then on top of it, the poor, besieged doctor is forced to hire additional staff just to help control the government’s paperwork! It’s ridiculous.
Let’s get rid of ALL that garbage.  ,
So now, we’ve incentivized more students to become doctors, and without those onerous taxes and heavy-handed regulations, we’ve also lowered their overhead: They can provide healthcare cheaper — and to more people — while still retaining more of their income.
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Not bad, eh?
But y’know, 30 years of not paying federal taxes is an awfully sweet carrot. That’s tough to turn down. So I believe we can get even more financial aid from our influx of young doctors: Perhaps they must also donate one day a month to see and treat patients for free in order to qualify for tax amnesty.
It’s still a fantastic deal for the docs: Instead of losing four months each year to taxes, they’re only losing 12 days.
Consider what we’ve accomplished: We’ve exponentially increased the number of doctors in the marketplace. We’ve lowered their overhead, with their cost-of-business slashed, there are fewer expenses to pass along to the patient. Additionally, we’ve developed a healthcare safety net, where top, young doctors will see low-income patients for free each month!
And we did it without bringing in new taxes. In fact, we cut’ em.
Wouldn’t that be something: After all the time we’ve wasted arguing about healthcare, capitalism was the cure all along!  ,
And we merely needed a taste of our own medicine.
