Nearly 150 Republican members of Congress this week released a visionary health reform plan, “A Framework for Personalized, Affordable Care,” that represents a new generation of reform. It adopts many of the recommendations from the Health Policy Consensus Group’s Health Care Choices plan and is compatible with the Personalized Healthcare proposal from the Job Creators Network and the Goodman Institute, also released this week. Canadian emergency rooms are packed, too—so packed that many Canadians just give up and go home. In 2017 alone, Canadians made 217,500 trips to other countries for health care, paying out-of-pocket to skip the waiting. In Not 'Junk': Setting the Record Straight on Short-Term Health Coverage Plans, Brian writes: “Short-term plans are useful for the uninsured, those between jobs, retirees near 65, and people in the middle-class without an offer of employer coverage.

Source: Forbes October 25, 2019 20:26 UTC