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bellevuedan

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  Government not other health care users should pay for Government required indigent care

  Government currently requires hospitals to provide emergency care regardless of a person's ability to pay. And I support this. Nobody wants an emergency facility asking for proof of insurance or ability to pay before they will provide you emergency care. But the care is not reimbursed so hospitals have to raise prices on other people who need their services. The problem with this, is that it unfairly burdens the ...more »

  Government currently requires hospitals to provide emergency care regardless of a person's ability to pay. And I support this. Nobody wants an emergency facility asking for proof of insurance or ability to pay before they will provide you emergency care.

  But the care is not reimbursed so hospitals have to raise prices on other people who need their services. The problem with this, is that it unfairly burdens the sick with the costs of the indigent. As long as government requires the care to be provided, it should be the Taxpayer who foots the bill if the recipient doesn't pay, not the other people who are sick.

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  Submitted by bellevuedan 3 years ago

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  Get Social Security Disability rulings right the first time.

  70-75% of all SSD claims are initially denied. But 55% of those are eventually approved upon appeal. This constant rework of claims is unnecessary wasteful, lines lawyers pockets, and worst of all delays benefits and causes unneccessary hardship and stress for those who truly need them. I'm not advocating approving every claim, but rather minimizing the errors up front. Apparently 34% of claims denied stand. ...more »

  70-75% of all SSD claims are initially denied. But 55% of those are eventually approved upon appeal.

  This constant rework of claims is unnecessary wasteful, lines lawyers pockets, and worst of all delays benefits and causes unneccessary hardship and stress for those who truly need them. I'm not advocating approving every claim, but rather minimizing the errors up front.

  Apparently 34% of claims denied stand. But I think this also needs to be reviewed. Did the disabled person give up? Did they refile instead of appeal? Did they die before the appeal could occur? Was it a truthful claim that didn't qualify? Or were they fraudulent?

  And if they were fraudulent were they prosecuted.

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  Submitted by bellevuedan 3 years ago

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  Enforce existing anti-trust laws in healthcare with regard to pricing.

  Health care providers charge individuals paying privately as much as 2 to 3 times the amount they charge insurance companies. Under anti-trust laws, you are not supposed to charge different prices for the same service unless the difference is clearly due to a cost difference. However, since insurance companies don't normally decide on the specific provider, it is still the individual deciding, and there is no discernible ...more »

  Health care providers charge individuals paying privately as much as 2 to 3 times the amount they charge insurance companies.

  Under anti-trust laws, you are not supposed to charge different prices for the same service unless the difference is clearly due to a cost difference. However, since insurance companies don't normally decide on the specific provider, it is still the individual deciding, and there is no discernible difference in marketing costs. Therefore the price should be the same.

  What has happened is that many insurance companies agree to put you in their network if you will agree to charge them 50% of your standard prices. So providers, wanting to be in the insurance networks agree, and double their standard prices in order to get a fair return from the insurance company.

  This is discrimnatory and should not be allowed.

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  Submitted by bellevuedan 3 years ago

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  Close Borders and immigration until unemployment drops

  It doesn't make sense to be letting people into the country when we can't employ our own.

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  Submitted by bellevuedan 3 years ago

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  Presumption of Equal Custody in divorce

  Over half the states have passed this now. It needs to be nationwide.

  Current divorce law provides monetary incentives for a parent to initiate divorce and to fight for as much custody time as they can.

  This pits parents against each other and makes reconciliation almost impossible. It's the worst thing possible for the child.

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  Submitted by bellevuedan 3 years ago

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  Group votes based on IP address

  From the grammar it's obvious that foreigners are posting on this site. Which is fine, but how do we know that a vote represents what Americans want or what foreigners want for America? Organize the votes according to the following: Votes traceable by IP address to an individual in the U.S. or the U.S. military Votes from anonymous websites that could represent multiple sites controlled by single individuals, or overseas ...more »

  From the grammar it's obvious that foreigners are posting on this site. Which is fine, but how do we know that a vote represents what Americans want or what foreigners want for America?

  Organize the votes according to the following:

  Votes traceable by IP address to an individual in the U.S. or the U.S. military

  Votes from anonymous websites that could represent multiple sites controlled by single individuals, or overseas votes.

  Votes from IP addresses that are overseas.

  And flag overseas comments as well.

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  Submitted by bellevuedan 3 years ago

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  Automate Driving

  We've made a lot of progress with DARPA, anti-lock brakes, GPS sytems and collision avoidance systems. But imagine if you could fully automate driving. 1) It would allow the elderly, sick, and even youth, to be more mobile and thus more productive. 2) It would reduce automobile accidents, and associated productivity losses and health care bills. 3) It would reduce injury lawsuits. 4) It would reduce speeding tickets. ...more »

  We've made a lot of progress with DARPA, anti-lock brakes, GPS sytems and collision avoidance systems. But imagine if you could fully automate driving.

  1) It would allow the elderly, sick, and even youth, to be more mobile and thus more productive.

  2) It would reduce automobile accidents, and associated productivity losses and health care bills.

  3) It would reduce injury lawsuits.

  4) It would reduce speeding tickets.

  5) It would reduce fuel consumption.

  6) Small unmanned vehicles could deliver groceries or meals or laundry to your house, reducing fuel consumption and resulting in new convenience.

  7) Large trucks would be involved in fewer accidents.

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  Submitted by bellevuedan 3 years ago

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  Internet Fraud

  Unplug from the internet, countries and internet providers who have a large amount of fraud, or computer viruses. At a minimum start with Nigeria and Ghanda. Require the countries/companies to demonstrate an ability and willingness to actively prosecute internet fraud. Since this would cut off internet access to legitimate businesses, you can certify legitimate businesses individually and turn them back on, either ...more »

  Unplug from the internet, countries and internet providers who have a large amount of fraud, or computer viruses.

  At a minimum start with Nigeria and Ghanda. Require the countries/companies to demonstrate an ability and willingness to actively prosecute internet fraud.

  Since this would cut off internet access to legitimate businesses, you can certify legitimate businesses individually and turn them back on, either before or after the sanctions go into effect.

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  Submitted by bellevuedan 3 years ago

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  Energy Plan

  DannyTN's energy plan The bulk of the stimulus should go to finance nuclear plants so that we could convert to hydrogen or battery in the event of another oil price shock. And hydrogen storage tanks, and car conversion kits. And in making both electric and fuel distribution grids more robust and less subject to disruption or terrorist attack. The nuke plants would generate returns that would pay for the financing. ...more »

  DannyTN's energy plan

  The bulk of the stimulus should go to finance nuclear plants so that we could convert to hydrogen or battery in the event of another oil price shock. And hydrogen storage tanks, and car conversion kits. And in making both electric and fuel distribution grids more robust and less subject to disruption or terrorist attack.

  The nuke plants would generate returns that would pay for the financing.

  The overhead of the nuke plants could be allocated out to normal electric customers and excess electricity could be sold to hydrogen producers for variable direct cost without overhead. That would further reduce fuel costs.

  The National Hydrogen Association> believes that hydrogen fuel could be delivered to stations for a cost of $1.20 per gasoline gallon equivalent and that's before considering my suggestion to allow hydrogen producers electricity at cheaper variable direct cost rates.

  You could require that all the raw materials for both the nuke plants and the hydrogen tanks come from the U.S. as long as unemployment remains above 6%.

  Build enough for at least a 3 state region, and then implement it. If you can really get the cost down that far and demonstrate it, the free market will finance the rest of the country. But if you can't, you still have an alternative in place that can be quickly implemented to reduce oil demand if oil prices shoot up again.

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  Submitted by bellevuedan 3 years ago

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