Two reforms that would not cost a trillion!

Can Pres BO and/or the Dems propose a health care plan that does not cost a trillion dollars?

I have not seen one so far. In fact, everyone of these plans always weighs in around a US$ 1 trillion:

House health care bill over $1 trillion for decade

"Health care legislation taking shape in the House carries a price tag of at least $1 trillion over a decade, significantly higher than the target President Barack Obama has set, congressional officials said Friday as they struggled to finish work on the measure for a vote early next month.'

Perhaps, there is a cheap rabbit in the hat but don't hold your breath!

At the same time, there are a couple of reforms that could really reform costs and our medical care system.

Bill O'Reilly has a couple of ideas:

"If insurance companies could compete nationwide, health premiums would fall.

And if you add tort reform to blunt the out-of-control medical lawsuit industry, doctors and medical personnel could charge less because their enormous medical malpractice bills would shrink.

By the way, the vast majority of Americans would support both of those things because they are free.

They don't cost the taxpayers anything."

That's right.

Let insurance companies compete for customers across the land.

And give doctors a break from this mindless litigation!

Why won't Pres BO propose something like that?

First, it's too simple, too free market and it does not create bureaucrats that will show up to vote for the Dem party.

Second, these ideas do not promote dependency. In other words, these reforms expect people to purchase their own insurance and be responsible.

Free market and personal responsibility!

What ever happened to those principles?

Professor Robert Samuelson is a straight shooter. He is back with a warning for all who think that a single payer system is the solution.

Read Promise Of The Public Plan Is A Mirage:

"In reality, the public plan is mostly an exercise in political avoidance:

It pretends to control costs and improve access to quality care, when it doesn't."

The solution is simple:

1) Tell people that our society expects them to purchase health insurance;

2) Let the free market bring insurance to consumers;

3) Allow the states, not the federal government, to design assistance programs to provide insurance for the poor or people out of work.