Healthcare
Make Healthcare Accessible and Affordable
Federal laws increase many of the problems they were meant to fix, they produce a host of new problems, and they render states powerless to fix anything. Centralized planning by bureaucrats simply doesn’t work.
Return health-care regulation to the states. We need policy freedom at the state level with regard to public spending on health-care for the poor and elderly.
Focus on catastrophic insurance/care. Comprehensive insurance programs are ridiculously expensive and do not justify the cost. The most salient benefit is protection from financially ruinous health problems, which can be provided at much lower cost.
Focus public spending on mental-health care. Such spending yields high returns.
Focus on cash subsidies. Bureaucrats should not decide what services should be available and at what cost. The truth is there are many examples of state laws and regulations that are designed to insulate market incumbents from competition and protect their profits.
A major example of bad state regulation is the “Certificate of Public Need” regime. Before a health-care provider can offer a new service or purchase a major piece of new equipment, it must prove to a state bureaucracy that there is a “public need” for the additional services being offered. This is costly, counter-productive, and patient-harming. It snuffs out job-creation, entrepreneurship, and cost-saving innovation. The regulatory regime offers no additional benefits to the public, only private benefits at public expense.
In the same vein, the licensing and accreditation regime for doctors, nurses, and other health-care professionals needs to be revamped. Licensing and accreditation reduce the supply of health-care providers, driving up costs for patients.
Let Texans take care of Texans
Federal laws and regulations undermine competition and innovation in the health-care industry. State governments add their own. Political control of health care ends up siphoning money into whatever is politically popular, rather than what is most beneficial.
Bring the power back to the state.
Health-care policy should be returned to the states or funding should be dispensed through block grants with policy freedom at the state level.
Mental illness is a key challenge.
The war on youth must end. More attention should be given to mental illness, including the science behind them and the use of drugs, therapy and other methods to treat them.
Removing state-level barriers to health-care service provision.
State-level regulations have numerous damaging effects that reduce the availability of services, increase costs, and decrease competition and innovation. The over-regulation of health-care professionals and centralized planning harm patients.
What we have now doesn't work.
Federal laws increase many of the problems they were meant to fix, they produce a host of new problems, and they render states powerless to fix anything. Centralized planning by bureaucrats simply doesn’t work.
Return health-care regulation to the states. We need policy freedom at the state level with regard to public spending on health-care for the poor and elderly.
Focus on catastrophic insurance/care. Comprehensive insurance programs are ridiculously expensive and do not justify the cost. The most salient benefit is protection from financially ruinous health problems, which can be provided at much lower cost.
Focus public spending on mental-health care. Such spending yields high returns.
Focus on cash subsidies. Bureaucrats should not decide what services should be available and at what cost. The truth is there are many examples of state laws and regulations that are designed to insulate market incumbents from competition and protect their profits.
A major example of bad state regulation is the “Certificate of Public Need” regime. Before a health-care provider can offer a new service or purchase a major piece of new equipment, it must prove to a state bureaucracy that there is a “public need” for the additional services being offered. This is costly, counter-productive, and patient-harming. It snuffs out job-creation, entrepreneurship, and cost-saving innovation. The regulatory regime offers no additional benefits to the public, only private benefits at public expense.
In the same vein, the licensing and accreditation regime for doctors, nurses, and other health-care professionals needs to be revamped. Licensing and accreditation reduce the supply of health-care providers, driving up costs for patients.
Let Texans take care of Texans
Federal laws and regulations undermine competition and innovation in the health-care industry. State governments add their own. Political control of health care ends up siphoning money into whatever is politically popular, rather than what is most beneficial.
Bring the power back to the state.
Health-care policy should be returned to the states or funding should be dispensed through block grants with policy freedom at the state level.
Mental illness is a key challenge.
The war on youth must end. More attention should be given to mental illness, including the science behind them and the use of drugs, therapy and other methods to treat them.
Removing state-level barriers to health-care service provision.
State-level regulations have numerous damaging effects that reduce the availability of services, increase costs, and decrease competition and innovation. The over-regulation of health-care professionals and centralized planning harm patients.
What we have now doesn't work.
