What we can do as a community, before mandates are imposed on everyone.

This new year is now the time to reexamine our goals and move forward into 2010 with a defined solution as to what will be accomplished in the name of healthcare reform.
The passage of healthcare bill in both houses of Congress now leaves little doubt that a passage of a healthcare bill will ensue. The fact is whether we agree or not agree with all the terms and provision in this bill, this is the first time in over four decades something is being done.

So let’s clearly define the main points and see how these can be improved. This makes more sense that to try to kill the whole bill and return back to the place where we talk about it, which is all we have ever done. The fact there is no pre-existing condition is a real win to those whom been denied coverage all these years- ex. retired football players.

The revaluing of the Medicaid and Medicare system, and creating a check and balance to eliminate waste and fraud which has been a common practice, as well as the government forgiving millions of dollars of overpayments to the insurance industry needs to be fixed.

The subsidization of the insurance industry as well needed to be addressed, since subsidies and outsourcing to the same industry is at best questionable.

So in one hand the government is fixing the long outstanding problem of the healthcare issue but in the other is creating another questionable situation.

Under the healthcare bill, on the one hand we are fixing one problem but in the other creating one as well. We are now mandating all Americans to buy insurances and then subsidizing premiums for 30 Million American. Never mind outsourcing all the government employee benefits to private insurance industry.

Was it not the government which broke ATT due to being a monopoly many years ago, now creating another? It must be said that the government needs to stop reshuffling the same deck of cards and let’s begin playing with a new deck of cards. A deck which bring back the basic elements of governing and helps the community look to solve there own uninsured problems. A free society to think and be creative is what is required than mandates on individuals only benefiting a specific industry with no cost control on that industry.

If we are to mandate anyone it should be the insurance industry to equally share in the risk of those medically impaired conditions. No company portfolio should be able to exclude or overcharge those individuals, and should equally maintain a percentile of those medically impaired individuals on their portfolio of insured.

So in this climate of healthcare reform regardless of the final bill, it is clear there will be a void in the middle class where there will be no assistance. A void where there will be no subsidies or qualification for Medicaid, and too young to qualify for Medicare.

In this New Year, an innovative approach will be introduced on Super Bowl Sunday February 7th, 2010 at Gulfstream Park & Casino, Halladale Beach, Florida. This will specifically be design to bring access to quality health care and bring back control to the provider PCP and the patient, who will benefits both financially and in the quality of care. Let’s look at a viable solution for the remaining American who will not benefit under the healthcare reform bill, and a solution for all communities in America who are facing this problem this year and every year thereafter. We have three years to show the government what we can do as a community, before mandates are imposed on everyone.

Perhaps then the government can see the solutions lies in the hand of the people at the community level and not in big government or lobbyist representing special interest of major insurance and pharmaceutical companies.