ON THE ISSUES: FREEDOM OF RELIGION, HEALTHCARE AND EVERYTHING ELSE!

Health care reform is needed but looking at the talking points of the currently proposed plan, it's evident the American public will reject it in great numbers when the true costs are revealed.

Why does health care cost so much in America?
It's profitable and largely without the competitive market controls that most industries have to deal with to exist, survive, and flourish.

1. Competition. National quality standards for all health care systems. Give consumers the information to make informed decisions about all health care decisions and let them take their biz wherever they want. Watch quality and patient customer service rise.

2. Electronic records management. Make them mandatory. Health care records online available to every health care professional anywhere at any time. Heard of the internet? Errors will drop, care will improve, lawsuits will drop, insurance for health care orgs and docs will become more competitive.

3. A national office for a Health Care Ombudsman with a state level office in each of the 50.

4. Transparency. Everywhere. Let the patients know what this is going to cost, what they are going to have to pay for and how much their insurer will pay. Give them a cash option without insurance payment and watch people start managing their own health care. At end of year, each insurer must offer health care cash paid credits to be applied to the following year's premiums. Everyone benefits.

5. National teaching and research hospitals. Reduce the cost of how expensive it is to become a physician. Repay it by serving at that national hospital. Bringing many of the best and brightest medical educators and administrators together at regional centers to create the next generation of future health care professionals with the emphasis on health care not the business of health care. Medical innovation will soar as will new patient care approaches.