Governor Thompson believes we must build a system that is affordable and accessible for everyone. And we can do this without a government-run health care program that includes the worst aspects of socialized medicine while robbing our great nation of its ingenuity in developing new cures and treatments for deadly illnesses....
1. We must build a system centered on preventive medicine, rather than curative. ...
2. We must use information technology to cut costs, reduce medical errors and create a more efficient health care system. ...
3. Third, we must use the private sector and public sector to provide health insurance for all. ...Governor Thompson proposes requiring states to organize purchasing pools among the uninsured. Such an arrangement would provide health insurance for families, while allowing the purchasing pools to negotiate better prices for care.
4. We must, once and for all, make sure health care and longterm care is affordable. ...
I would like to applaud Gov. Thompson's preamble which properly rejects government run universal health care/insurance systems and socialism. But, the devil is in the details and Gov. Thompson's plan falls short on #4.
Health care is the only area of a consumer's life in which the consumer is completely uninformed about the prices. While, I probably wouldn't stop on my way into the emergency room to check the price.... price information for most preventive and routine care should be known. So Governor... would you pledge to get us a little transparency on medical service pricing? How about requiring hospitals, clinics, HMOs, Lab's etc. to post pricing information on the internet?
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