There’s no doubt we need to ‘tweak’ our healthcare system. The solution is NOT to have the government end up providing 100% coverage for ANY group of people.

I think the Republican Party (and conservatives) should focus on helping out those who are facing catastrophic circumstances. Cancer. ALS. A serious accident. The situations that DO break people financially because of long term, major expenses.

We need to work to expand Medical Savings Accounts, where a high deductible policy is available, and unused money rolls over to the next year.

It’s probably too late, but we need to work to change the mentality of people who think that health insurance, unlike car or homeowners insurance, should pay for EVERYTHING, instead of being reserved for more serious situations.

And we need to reform our tort laws, where malpractice IS punished, but not to the insane level it is. We’ve got to stop encouraging these lawyers who chase lawyers, and engage in stunts like ‘channeling’ the spirit of a child born with birth defects in order to win settlements (not to mention any names here, of course!).

The idea that we need Uncle Sam to take over yet another chunk of the American economy, with parts of the law which seem to outlaw new private insurance after a certain date, which put unelected bureaucrats in charge of determining what treatments are/aren’t available, scares the cr-p out of me.

Uncle Barack’s ‘Quality, Affordable Health Coverage for All Americans’ bill. Hmmm. QAHCAA. Would that be pronounced ‘CACA’?