One of our most personal freedoms is that of our own healthcare. Competitive pricing of healthcare visits, treatments, and products, along with insurance options accessible nationwide, should become as open and prices readily available to the public via the internet as are Lasik eye surgeries, consumer products comparisons, and other insurance products now. Costs can also be lowered, and efficiencies gained, by expanding and allowing medical assistants, nurses, and physician assistants to perform general, basic services without the higher expense of a doctor except where necessary. As another example, until eligible for Medicare, everyone should be eligible to make and self-manage contributions to ones own (or family's) healthcare by an untaxed savings account or Health Savings Accounts into which individuals (and employers) could contribute money for the patient's own out of pocket expenses and insurance policy premiums (with choices of much more affordable basic plans with higher deductiblesand then full or near-full coverage for catastrophic illness or injury, not just a choice of expensive big-size-fits-none policies).
Such overdue reforms would free us to competitively choose and make our own cost-effective, patient-chosen health decisions -- instead of being subject to rationing or forced mandates by government or other 3rd parties -- and to create better incentives for medical providers and insurers to compete for your business. The recent controversial, split Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of parts of the ACA ("Obamacare") illustrates why healthcare questions at the national level are best addressed in a nonpartisan and careful manner, instead of being so rushed, forced, lengthy and complex as to be unread, without consensus, and not well understood by your representatives in Congress.