The New Ideas Blog

I recently wrote a page about one of the ways to make a government health care plan work better. That doesn’t mean that I am in favor of such a system, but if we are going to have one I hope that we can at least do it in a way that doesn’t result in either bankrupting the country or rationing medical care. My idea was that you have to make people pay for the first thousand dollars of their care annually and pay an ongoing portion thereafter in order to discourage unlimited demand and to keep the medical industry competitive, as well as to make the whole thing affordable for taxpayers. That page is here:

Health Insurance Reform - New Solutions

But in this post I want to suggest some more radical ideas for making the system more affordable for everyone. Specifically, I want to start with this: Stop licensing doctors and other health care professionals. Stop (more…)