The point of healthcare is to keep people healthy, but our system is designed to keep investors happy. Nobody should go broke because they got sick, but people do every day. That's because the healthcare system hides prices, buries you in paperwork, and charges you whatever it can get away with. It doesn't have to be this way.
Transparency
You should be able to see what something costs before you get the bill. Hospitals should be required to post real, comparable prices. The same goes for prescription drugs. Pharmacy middlemen take a cut at every step because it's so easy to hide where the money goes. That needs to end.
Efficiency
A quarter of every healthcare dollar goes to administrative costs like paperwork, billing disputes, and prior authorizations. None of that makes anyone healthier. We need to simplify the system, standardize how claims are processed, and stop paying wildly different prices for the same procedure.
Affordability
Nothing in the healthcare system is designed to bring prices down. There is no real competition, and no alternative for people who can't afford what's offered. Americans skip prescriptions, avoid the doctor, and go into debt for basic care. No one should be condemned to a life of choosing between rent and refills.
My Plan
- Create a public option funded by healthcare taxes on the products that drive healthcare costs up: tobacco, alcohol, sugary drinks, and ultra-processed food.
- Make the public option truly free at the point of care, with no copays, no surprise bills, and no fighting with insurers.
- Include mental health and addiction services as core coverage. Not a carve-out, not a separate network, not a maybe.
- Require hospitals, insurers, and pharmacy benefit managers to post real, comparable prices. Penalize those who hide them.
- End vertical integration in healthcare. When the same corporation owns the insurer, the pharmacy benefit manager, the pharmacy, and the provider network, they profit at every step while patients have nowhere else to go. Break up these conglomerates so each part of the system has to compete on its own.
- Eliminate the pharmacy middleman monopoly. Drug rebates should go to patients, not disappear into a supply chain controlled by the same companies that set the prices.
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