tex805

tex805 3 years, 3 months ago

Mr. Levy: You raise some excellent points. I, too, will be brief.

  1. Interstate sales of insurance will indeed help. Let's do it!
  2. Tort reform for "pain and suffering" helps the doctors, not the patients, as the savings do not get passed on. See http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/health/july-dec09/malpractice_09-25.html.
  3. Your "more tort reform" ideas will also help. The lawyers lobby will vigorously oppose the limitations, and it will be very difficult to pass.
  4. Pre-existing conditions/no cancellation. Excellent idea, and very much needed. However, it will raise the cost of insurance, not lower it.

What's missing? 1. Universal coverage - that's critical. (not even counting the issue of illega;s). 2. Means to reduce the cost of insurance - and medical care. 3. Solving the underfunding of Medicare.

When you address these critical issues, you will have a solution.

Incidentally, I am a Republican living in California. Your indiscriminate use of labels is indeed inappropriate.

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