OpenGov - Open Government Brainstorm

Whether utilizing the same healthcare provided by our government or some other system, the issues still remain.

Controlling healthcare costs needs to be a priority for all hospitals. The lack of visibility of the healthcare supply chain adds an additional 4 billion dollars per year to the overall cost of healthcare. Partnering with distributors and other vendors could easily reduces these costs. Manufacturing has been very successful reducing it's supply chain costs and have reap many benefits. Focus on operational costs in healthcare will surely reduce the cost and increase its efficiencies.

"True cost" information is the way to go. The studies have been done, we can eliminate 99% of Medicare funding shortfalls by buying generic in bulk overseas. The trick is knowing which country to buy from for each of the 75 top prescriptions.

Congress and the Executive lack integrity. We must demand "true cost" information, and the Open Source Agency I have proposed is one way to consolidate all these good ideas and have them acted upon by an independent agency that cannot be manipulated by either Congress or the Executive. The media was supposed to do that, but Wall Street bought them up as well.

Integrity solves a lot of problems. Free public health as with fire, police, and education solves a lot of problems. Oversight of an inherently crooked system, when those doing the oversight are crooked themselves, does not help, IMHO.

Eliminating profit from the health care system is the way to go. That means eliminating insurance companies and profit-making hospitals from health care. If, for example, a private company makes a 10% profit, that's 10% of money that is removed from the health care system, going into shareholder pockets. This is why insurance companies do whatever they can to deny benefits.

Additionally, the overhead of private health care is three to six times what Medicare's is. That comes from huge executive salaries, advertising, etc.

Health insurance companies are parasites.

We must have public financing of campaigns...period!

I know you think you don't want to pay for it...but you already ARE!

Every blocked piece of legislation that is supported by the majority because some committee head is paid off or intimidated into inaction, every blocked investigation into pharmacuticals...YOU PAY AND PAY AND PAY!

You pay hundreds of times what you would to finance campaigns in A CORRUPTION SURCHARGE!

Removing legal liabilities and regulation is the best way to lower prices.

With fixed pricing, we are more likely to see skilled professionals change jobs or countries.