The 6 Republican Health Care Ideas vs. My One

The 6 Republican Health Care Ideas vs My One

Republicans plan to emphasize six smaller ideas to change the health-care system, including new limits on malpractice lawsuits, allowing small businesses and individuals to buy insurance across state lines and creating high-risk pools to cover the sick. They will stress that Americans are more concerned about lowering insurance costs than expanding coverage, and that an incremental approach is more palatable to the public.

My opinion, not that anyone asked for it, is that there is actually ONE thing that would be simple, easy, have incredible bipartisan support, and would make more difference than any of the ideas on the table now:

Government agency tasked with creating an easy-to-navigate public and freely available web database listing the final consumer costs and success rates of every medical procedure as provided by every medical facility in the US.

If you did that, costs might actually go DOWN for the average Joe.