10 RULES TO FIX HEALTH CARE

HEALTH CARE IS NOT FOR MAKING MONEY!

IT IS FOR HELPING SICK PEOPLE.

HEALTHCARE FOR PROFIT IS HELLCARE

1. 1. Healthcare must not be a for-profit business.

   A small amount (5%) should be allowed to keep it in business.

   Vanity healthcare sellers (e.g., cosmetic surgery or sex change) can make profit.

   The monetary needs of a healthcare professional must not be part of salary decisions.

    

2. There must be no monopolies or monopoly powers in healthcare.

   Doctors and other professionals shall not band together into practices with more than 5 doctors.

   Most doctors should be independent of other practices. This keeps long appointment waits away.

    

3. Prices and estimates must be no more than 5% above actual cost.

   High estimates to cheat insurance are wrong.

    

4. Patent, copyright, and trademark royalties must be no more than 5% of actual cost.

   It is wrongdoing to use high charges to get more.

    

5. There shall be no competition free periods to recover development costs.

   Development costs must be recovered through sales.

    

6. Lawsuits and collection agencies shall be prohibited in medicine.

   Here is where government should help - bills patients are unable to pay.

    

7. Healthcare providers and insurers must never have rules or do things that keep insurance from paying.

    

8. Patients must be given prices and choices when multiple service providers are available.

   This includes ambulance, x-ray, and other specialist services.

    

9. Repeal laws requiring medical products kept in patient rooms to be destroyed at patient cost if unused.

   Items that are sealed from contamination or can be disinfected should be reused.

    

10. The patient must not be charged rent for the use of a room.

    Only actual costs of the use of the room may be charged, not real estate rental or space used.

     

No more rich medical people.