At OpEdNews: Rx for Healthcare Reform-- Manage Your Own Healthcare

We can creatively use the free market system and our tax code to revolutionize healthcare to enable each of us to manage our OWN healthcare without medical transaction direction from government, insurance companies or employers. We will drastically reduce costs in doing so. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Ann Wilmer - Sep 26, 2009 - 12:46 AM PDT
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Edited by: Ann Wilmer - Sep 26, 2009 - 9:58 AM PDT

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by Chris Finnie - Sep. 26, 2009

Though Scharf presents some interesting proposals, he leaves out some key points that could punch a big hole in them. For example, what about employees who don't currently receive employer-paid insurance? Would they receive the pay increases too? If employers can't afford to give them insurance, how will they pay for those? And where will the money come from for the government payments? The piece also suffers from some mangled writing. Despite reading it four times, I still don't ... More »

The stray quotation marks that don't seem to relate to anything could be a browser formatting problem. But confusing "less" jobs with the correct ... More »

Our economy suffers from wasted time spent on administrative procedures by insurers, providers and patients. More »

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by Ann Wilmer - Sep. 26, 2009

It is a thoughtful op-ed. born out of experienced with a failed health care system. Worth reading.

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by Cynthia Gilbert - Sep. 26, 2009

You think you can't get any consensus now? Try getting your average citizen to understand this proposal. Some good ideas but why are we trying to ... More »

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by Patricia Blochowiak - Sep. 26, 2009

If this is what's coming out of the Wharton School, it's highly over-rated. The number of issues that are misrepresented, false, or simply ignore ... More »

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