Thursday, July 23, 2009

Jindal's Promise

Here's yer stinking health reform choices


My antennae twitched when I saw the title of  Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's WSJ article, "How to Make Health-Care Reform Bipartisan." Because the only thing that needs reforming are changes implemented in the free-for-all atmosphere that's existed since Hillary's attempted 1993 grab. Thanks largely to a Republican controlled congress, much of what she proposed have been incrementally imposed on us.  Reform would mean going back to square one. 

I needn't have worried.  Like Sarah Palin, Rep. Michelle Bachman, and a few others, Jindal walks the walk.  After deconstructing the democrat's Obamacare premises,  Jindal offers his reforms.  Here's some.
Consumer choice guided by transparency. We need a system where individuals choose an integrated plan that adopts the best disease-management practices, as opposed to fragmented care. Pricing and outcomes data for all tests, treatments and procedures should be posted on the Internet.

•Aligned consumer interests. Consumers should be financially invested in better health decisions through health-savings accounts, lower premiums and reduced cost sharing.

•Medical lawsuit reform. The practice of defensive medicine costs an estimated $100 billion-plus each year, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, which used a study by economists Daniel P. Kessler and Mark B. McClellan. No health reform is serious about reducing costs unless it reduces the costs of frivolous lawsuits.

•Pooling for small businesses, the self-employed, and others. All consumers should have equal opportunity to buy the lowest-cost, highest-quality insurance available. Individuals should benefit from the economies of scale currently available to those working for large employers.
A true dilemma facing Americans today is deciding  Palin-Jindal,  or Jindal-Palin  in the court ordered special election following Obama's dismissal for being an illegal alien. 

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Most of the stuff Jindal does seems pretty good, to me. Not being from Louisiana, I just sort of follow his actions from a distance.

It's too bad he comes off so much like a dweeb. Ron Paul has the same problem. If he looked and sounded more like John Wayne he'd have done much better in his national campaigns.

jd

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Hopefully, after suffering through president teleprompter, voters will place some value on substance over smoke. Sigh.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, special election, yeah, I like it, but how soon Rodger? Soon, very soon I hope.

DE644

Anonymous said...

either combination of Palin-Jindal is acceptible IMO..

Tetzman

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