
The Alliance of Texans Against
Government Controlled Healthcare
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1. States
must regain control over healthcare.
The Tenth
Amendment of the Constitution states: if the federal government
does not have Constitutional power, the power belongs to the
States or the people. States must reassert their powers
under the Tenth Amendment.
State
government's sole function is monitoring the marketplace for
fraud, and the federal government will play no role in
healthcare. Reversing costly mandates at the state and
federal level will allow for lower costs and better regulation.
Healthcare Charity organizations will not be run by the state or federal governments, nor will any money from the government be used to establish or maintain them.
Healthcare
Charities will be not for profit organizations, anyone can
donate money to these Charities and have it tax deducted
against their federal return.
This will
allow doctors and hospitals to be more effective at treating
patients that cannot pay. Cost shifting will not be
allowed. Doctors and hospitals are able to use tax
advantages to help low income patients.
Since
healthcare charities will have no government involvement, the
marketplace and donations will dictate how they will be
effectively used.
5. States must start the process of phasing out redistribution of wealth programs that neither the state nor federal governments can continue to sustain.
State Medicaid
The first
step in phasing the Medicaid program would be to require a
five year residency in the state in order to receive
benefits.
Then we
allow private charities to take over in place of Medicaid.
Doctors
must be paid. Doctors do not have the ability to
refuse care, nor do they share in the financial risk.
Bankruptcy laws should not apply to doctors, if patients
refuse to pay, they should be charged with theft of
services.
Doctors
would have the ability to finance up to 5% of monthly income
at no interest until the bills are paid.
If a
patient refuses to pay medical providers, only then the
state can take over collection of the debt with wage
garnishments and tax liens.
7. Allow for
emergency room doctors to refuse care to patients that are not
in a critical state, who cannot pay for the services.