Who knows what is best for Texans—Washington or Texas? Who is more responsive to your telephone calls, your concerns, and your vote: your Texas legislator, or your Congressional delegation?
For more than 50 years, the federal government has dominated healthcare using a military command-and-control model.
As long as Medicaid is a free entitlement, many people will have no commitment, will not be personally invested, will see no value in the program, and won’t sign up. A good solution is some form of work requirement.
The GOP just released the American Health Care Act, which turns out to be more amend-and-enhance than repeal-and-replace. Their plan does not repeal the federal mandates that control spending in Texas. This makes it even more imperative that Texas gain control over its own budget. It is time for Texas to dream big: Get Chapter 537 approved by CMS to put control of Texas Medicaid where it belongs — in Texas’ hands.
We call this healthcare system “StatesCare”, emphasizing what is important: states are in charge, and states know best how to care for their people. StatesCare can give everybody what they want and cut the Gordian knot tying up Washington.
Improving Access to Dental Care: Testimony on Senate Bill 430 by Dr. Deane Waldman, MD MBA, Director of the Center for Health Care Policy.
We want states to reduce spending, yet Washington rewards them—with federal dollars—when they spend more!
Don’t start fussing over the details. There it is – a simple workable U.S. health care system, understandable by anyone, fiscally sustainable, responsive to local needs, that restores “power to the people,” as the new president promised in his Inaugural speech
Bureaucrats do what they think they can. Entrepreneurs and doctors do whatever it takes!
How can the CBO calculate the effects of repeal and replace when the plans for repeal and replace have not yet been announced? They can’t.
Repeal will give our healthcare system a chance to do what it is actually supposed to do: care for us.
There are a host of good reasons to “repeal” the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). “Replace” is an entirely different matter.