Healthcare Reform Framework, A Return to Natural Law....

I am a fan of socialized/community healthcare BUT from the bottom up and NOT from the top down. Insurance companies can stay or go for all I care, but they shouldn't be the only line of defense for people. The current system is fraught with immoral behavior that doesn't have any integrity. Without admitting it openly or even privately to themselves, any person in the Senate and Congress knows this to be the case. The entire system system designed to support payment of care is phenomenally bassackwards and should be upended and I can give you a list of things that I believe can help us go down right road. These suggestions are not for a weak hearted political representative as anyone trying to advocate this stuff is committing career suicide. However, the architects of the Constitution believed that only the best among us should be called to serve and I firmly believe the best among us could see reason in what I suggest below even if its not in their best interests. Below is a framework for beginning a struggle that could culminate in the implementation community plans all over the country.

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1. Implement the teaching natural law and morality in early childhood education and via yearly re-application the public and private school systems. It has the to be the basis for behavior for school children not just in word but in practice. All universities should be required to teach morality and ethics via a dynamic curriculum that requires students to participate in real life scenarios in the communities where the schools are located. This should be an across the board requirement regardless of the discipline studied. A strong sense of moral responsibility has to be the core of this country and without it we will continue to have too much corruption in our political and commercial systems. It's a back the basics approach that should eventually weave its way into the backbone of our society, even in those pockets that are resistant. The end goal is to have a nation of moral people, in all segments, that are able to make rational decisions about hard life choice, but in fair and equitable ways. This is EXTREMELY important for any of the following to work.

2. Public Service Marketing campaigns sponsored by the national, state, and city governments hailing the importance of charity in our community. These would continually emphasize importance of people taking care of one another.

3. Establishment of community, city, and state programs funded to pay for medical procedures, operations, and long term care where people cannot afford them OR their insurance plans have failed them. All of these programs should be funded by charitable donations from private citizens and enterprises that are above the line deductions from federal taxes. So in essence, the funds needed come from the communities first and then go up to higher levels for assistance only if there isn't enough available to satisfy the local demand.

4. Because of an increased demand, we will need an increased supply of Doctors. Make loan interests payments for Physicians an above the line tax deductible expense.

5. Have national model of a Real Tort Reform bill that limits damages for medical malpractice to real damages. Damages such as loss of income for the term of the recovery or for a lifetime, if needed, and payment of all necessary medical costs and after care. Various states have their own laws but implementation of the federal law will get you access to number 8 on this list.

6. If willful, repeated, and deliberate medical malpractice can be proven then Physicians will go to jail. However, medical accidents (no one is perfect) should not punished to the point where someone cannot continue to practice.

7. Keep the Private Healthcare facilities PRIVATE. DO NOT federalize them, no matter what...EVER.

8. Offer Federal Tax Subsidies to organizations that look to establish community healthcare facilities in places that don't have enough supply.

9. Establish strong federal standards for level of care and quality and establish a system for periodic reviews and/or inspections.

10. Implement term limits for all of the US Congressmen/women so that special interest groups and lobbyists don't dictate policy. <--- I would say eliminate the lobbyists but under the table will still be under the table.

11. Repeal the 17th Amendment which made the Senators vulnerable to the very same special interest groups and lobbyists.