I'm tired of your griping, LB. Answer me this - how should the care of the sickest among us be financed? Unless you adopt the position that the sickest may rely solely on alms, it's a complex question that necessarily impacts other aspects of the delivery of health care.
Who do you think should be subsidizing care for the sick who cannot pay their bills from their own pocket? What is morally and ethically fair?
Foremost, everything from bandaids on up should be 100% tax free, and 100% deductible.
Tax credits to families supporting members with terminal or long term health care and support needs. - If my uncle can give me money and get under the bubble on a tax bracket, that should be encouraged if I am medically challenged.
Encourage churches to get back into the medical field... Much much better to be run by an organization which has a primary penchant for charity.
Loosen regulations to allow nurses and midwives to practice medicine - Develop an expansion of medical practitioners that don]t cost so much, delivering easily 80% of healthcare needs just as efficiently and capably as a doctor... providing small clinics and even house calls at remarkably cheaper rates.
Loosen regulations on equipment - the very same pliers I use cost 10 times as much if sold as a medical device.
Those, just off the top of my head.