{"id":1237,"date":"2009-10-05T12:56:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T12:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2009-10-05T12:56:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T12:56:21","slug":"ten_ideas_for_healthcare_refor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"Ten Ideas For Healthcare Reform By Bobby Jindal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/04\/AR2009100402003.html\">Washington Post<\/a>&nbsp;has an article by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal on how to reform healthcare and actually make it work.&nbsp; He lists ten points:<\/p>\n<p>1.&nbsp; Voluntary purchasing pools&#8211;make it easy for small business and individuals to form groups to purchase healthcare at cheaper prices.<\/p>\n<p>2.&nbsp; Portability&#8211;when you change jobs, your health insurance can go with you.<\/p>\n<p>3.&nbsp; Lawsuit reform.<\/p>\n<p>4.&nbsp; Coverage of preexisting conditions.<\/p>\n<p>5.&nbsp; Transparency and payment reform&#8211;let consumers know exactly what they are paying for and be able to determine the quality of the company they choose.<\/p>\n<p>6.&nbsp; Electronic medical records.<\/p>\n<p>7.&nbsp; Tax-free Health Savings Accounts.<\/p>\n<p>8.&nbsp; Reward healthy lifestyle choices.<\/p>\n<p>9.&nbsp; Cover young adults&#8211;this evens out the risk pool and lowers premiums for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>10. Refundable tax credits&#8211;this would allow lower income people to purchase health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>As the debate on healthcare plays out, we need to be aware of the options that are not included in the current proposal.&nbsp; Some of the options listed above would result in immediate savings for&nbsp;consumers without creating a government-controlled healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p>Please read the entire article&#8211;there are some good ideas there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Post&nbsp;has an article by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal on how to reform healthcare and actually make it work.&nbsp; He lists ten points: 1.&nbsp; Voluntary purchasing pools&#8211;make it easy for small business and individuals to form groups to purchase &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1237\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}