“these people have every right to do what they’re doing” Since when is being an obnoxious, disruptive, paid pest protected as free speech?

It’s not, & when corporations are willing to exercise the responsibilities of citizenship, then we can talk about extending them the rights of citizenship. As it stands, business is just a shield to allow scummy people to dodge their moral obligations while vacuuming up the lion’s share of the benefits.

1) Tort reform, including doctors AND health care products (drugs, wheelchairs, etc.) If the FDA approves a drug- no one should be allowed to sue for the side effects.
2) Ability to purchase health care coverage across borders
3) Banning of advertising for any medical items (they are using the $$ robbed from us for REAL medicine to push Viagra ad nauseum)
4) Reduction of procedures covered by the government in medicare, unless you buy coverage for it
5) EDUCATION of the poor schmucks out there who already qualify for state and federal programs but are not taking advantage of it
6) Extension of patents on drugs IF a drug co. agrees to profit caps in the early years
7) Tax incentives for doctors in GENERAL PRACTICE, while keeping continued profit potential for specialists (otherwise medicine will not improve)
Every 5 years target 5 ailments that would save the most and offer a $100M reward to whomever comes up with a cure
9) Require 401k plan companies (or any profit sharing) to also administer separate FSA’s for the public where insurance premiums would be fully deductible (maybe 1 account free for every 5 investor accounts)
10) Encourage healthcare facility building by a VERY accelerated deprecaition for any hospital or 70% occupied medical building constructed in the next 10 years.

And the list could go on…. all without the govt. being ANYWHERE near healthcare.

But Andrew’s challenge to you is to create “…a constructive set of proposals to build on universal care for a more market-friendly and cost-conscious system in the future.”

I’d love to see your proposal, or one that you could sign onto. Thanks!

And the rest of your article just reads like you had written it before you read what he said. Hello honest and eloquent argument, meet this brick wall. Very unfair reading of a blog post by someone whose thinking is apparently over your head.