Put Patients Back in Charge of their Healthcare
In 2000, the average family paid about $6,000 a year for health insurance. Today, that figure has climbed to nearly $27,000, rising at more than twice the rate of inflation over the same period. It’s no surprise that healthcare affordability remains a top concern among Americans. As costs continue to climb, more working adults are choosing to go without health insurance altogether.
Democrats, responsible for the inception of Obamacare and our current crisis, tell you that the solution is more government spending and intervention in the free market.
But the United States already spends more on healthcare than any other nation, and the government finances more than half of this spending. Propping up a broken system with more taxpayer cash is a guarantee for failure — leaving patients and providers feeling stuck and powerless in a system devoid of choice.
Americans need real solutions, not more government subsidies, control and free market intervention.
In a departure from most of our nation’s past, big government, big Pharma and insurance companies are now deeply entrenched in the American healthcare system. Invariably, insurers like the federal government, private insurance companies or large employers are fronting costs that would otherwise be paid by the patient. Providers, free from accountability to the patient and in short supply, have no incentive to reduce or even communicate prices when the patient is not directly involved in decision-making.
Imagine walking into a grocery store where nothing has a price tag, you don’t know what your total cost will be for weeks or months later and someone else decides which products you are allowed to purchase.
No one should tolerate this experience. Yet, this is how America’s healthcare system functions.