Essentiall, all US citizens and Legal aliens will be covered by a national care plan that will work a lot like medicare. the cost, 10% of earnings – no additional fees. All medical personnel, clinics, hospitals, etc., must accept this insurance for all reasons. The plan will have some deductibles and copays, just as it currently does – individuals should be encouraged to purchase a supplemental plan from a regular inurance company and to use it for these deductibles and co-pays (all of the above also includes prescriiption drugs, and anciliatoy needs, such as wheel chairs, oxygen, cruches, bathroom needs, home nursing, home respite, home rehab care, etc.).
Individuals my opt out of the entire program and purchase all of their insurance straight from any supplier and this will also follow the rules nd regulatiions of the govt prgrams.
ILLEGAL Aliens would have to use the curren county hospital / public hospital system that is currently in place in most localities for indigient people.There is no need for a medicaid program any longer becuase almost everyone can be covered by the new govt plan. If cannot work due to physical or mental or emotional problems, the patient will have form signed by 3 licensed doctors attesting to this person inability to work, and the govt will supply that person with free govt care. this will have to be renewed on an annual basis. We are still humans and must treat those whom cannot work for various honest resaons, we must treat them with the same dignity as we would anyone else. Anyone reaching age 67 (retirement age) can receive full govt care for all time – we can call it national elderly care – for free – but we will require them to purchase suppllemental
insurance. If this 67 yrs. old has not retired and works at least half time (20 hours per week) we will deduct 5% of their pay to go toward the national program until they fullly reture from work. There will never be any “death” panels, committees, evaluations, etc. to decide when any person has to bo to hospice, or taken off a resperator, etc. All of these life and death decisions will always be handled through one’s family, religious advisor, and physicians.

Mr/ Gingrich, can we gett this written into a bill and finally pass it so the country can go o0n to other things. thank you.
a.e. rubin chicago

What no one addresses such as akuperma is that the best way to control costs would be limits on tort. But, g-d forbid we ask lawyers to share the pain of the rest of the economy.

Rachmana Litzlan, I sure hope that you’re not a frum Jew. To know that there are such heartless people among us…so lacking in rachamim…is very distressing.

My father (a”h) owned a small grocery store, working long and often back-breaking hours. He wasn’t home much. We were very low-middle class and he couldn’t afford health insurance. The medical bills for two heart attacks added to our family’s financial pressures, and I’m pretty sure that the agmas nefesh from his struggle to support his family contributed to his third heart, which killed him. My widowed mother (a”h) was left with the burden of even greater medical bills to pay off. And neither of my parents were “whiners.”

There are, undoubtedly, thousands upon thousands of such stories (both within and without the Jewish community) of honest, hard working people, who face insurmountable financial burdens because our society has, heretofore, been led by such as yourself who say as you do: “if you can’t pay for your health care, too bad! Stop whining… just suffer and die.” Truly pathetic.