Healthcare Reform and Protectionism

Dear President Obama:

It feels to me that a document on Healthcare Reform, that is over 2000 pages long, and full of protectionism, will be ineffective, less productive and a managerial nightmare.

Granted, you will be able to say that you got something, anything, done, because healthcare as we now know it is already inefficient and a managerial nightmare, but my recommendation is to slow down, and instead of trying to eat this elephant in one bite, try eating it one bite at a time.

Since you asked for recommendations in your State of Union Address, here is a start:

1. Start with a set of Bills of Rights.
A. A customer Bill of Rights.
1. Available to everyone.
2. Affordable.
3. Encourages prevention and good habits; like your wife's program to prevent childhood obesity.
B. A Doctor's Bill of Rights.
C. An Insurance company's Bill of Rights.
2. The new Health Care Plan should be revenue neutral.

The problems with our current Health Care Program are obvious to everyone.

And yet America is still a leader in Health Care.

Let's not make the new Health Care Plan more administratively complex and costly.

It should not be a welfare plan on steroids.

It should be synergistic with all parties contributing to a better system.