Rand Paul’s Solution For Lowering Health Costs: Have Patients Pay In Cash

[DonViejo]

During an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) declared, “capitalism has not been tried yet in health care,” and suggested that enrolling more Americans in high-deductible health plans would lower health care costs.

While addressing the moral imperative to ensure that low-income Americans can afford health insurance, Paul explained that his experience in his own medical practice highlights the wisdom of high-deductible, “consumer-driven” plans, or forgoing insurance altogether and paying in cash:

Capitalism has not been tried yet in health care. Most of health care is government-fixed prices and there’s very little capitalism. In fact, I’m a physician. In my practice, about 3% of my practice was capitalism. Those are people who came in with high deductibles or paid cash. That marketplace worked because we did bid down prices on things that people came in and paid for.

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[louis-t]

1. Borrow it from your parents.

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. Yep. that'll work ...

pay cash for that emergency operation; but you have to wait tell we agree upon a price.

If you die before we agree ... hey, nothing lost; no cost incurred.

If we agree on a price and you end up not being able to pay the fairly agreed upon price; I own you and your off-spring until the debt is made whole.

Ain't the free market great?

[Scuba]

3. They should pay in gold. Each doctor's office should be required to staff an assayer and ....

... have a certified scale on the premises.

[mshasta]

6. lol

you're just too much!

[bongbong]

4. Do the Libertarian healthcare plans

include coverage for skin bronzer?

[mysuzuki2]

5. I remember an early episode of Lassie from the 1950s

where Jeff tried to sell Lassie to pay for an operation for his mother. It was very sad. I guess that's the kind of world this bozo wants; one where little boys have to sell their dogs so their mothers won't die.

[Blue Idaho]

7. How about chickens?

I think we should all pay in chickens, goats, and sheep.

[brightertomorrow]

8. And what if the patient doesn't have any cash

What should they do then?? Die??

[SDjack]

9. Then, go back to Post #1: borrow it from your parents.

Rand has never been without support, so he will never understand how stupid his suggestion is.

[Kelvin Mace]

10. Now why didn't I think of that

I'll just reach into the drawer where I keep all the money that corporations keep sending me and.... oh, wait...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. A doctor in Palestine, Texas, will NOT take cash.

I could not see him, because he would not take cash.
I was flabbergasted. His office ladies gave me some line of BS that I did not understand.

CASH MONEY is NOT taken in his office as Legal Tender. He's probably a right wing asshole anyway. I went elsewhere.