Here’s one:

Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover. These mandates have increased the cost of health insurance by billions of dollars. What is insured and what is not insured should be determined by individual customer preferences and not through special-interest lobbying.

Personally, I think we need MORE government regulation of insurance companies, not less.

Here’s another that I’m not fond of:

Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. These costs are passed back to us through much higher prices for health care.

It is a great comfort to me to know that lawyers are an option.

Here’s another:

Enact Medicare reform. We need to face up to the actuarial fact that Medicare is heading towards bankruptcy and enact reforms that create greater patient empowerment, choice and responsibility.

I’m on Medicare. I have enough empowerment and responsibility, thank you.

After this, he trashes the UK and Canadian systems, says the solution is to have people with health care donate money on their tax forms so the others who have no insurance can be covered (yeah, that’d work!) and closes with this:

Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are expensive to treat. We should be able to live largely disease-free lives until we are well into our 90s and even past 100 years of age.

Shop at Whole Foods and live to 100.

But here; read it all.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html

While I agree with you on this. . . .

As pm317 is, I am a vegetarian, trying hard to go vegan. It is difficult. And I don’t always shop at Whole Foods except for the things I cannot get elsewhere. I don’t like their open display of meat. But, for instance, it’s the only place I can go to get contact lens cleaner that is manufactured by a company that does not test on animals.

My son works for Target, which has a very watered down version of a healthcare option as Whole Foods’ plan. I am just happy that he has healthcare at all at this point. And he’s now at the level that it does provide him some financial protection.

I, too, would like a single payor option. We need a healthy populace as well as an educated populace. I would like our public education to be much, much better. And I know a single payor option will also be run by many idiots as the public education system is run. Still, it’s the only solution, I think, for the crazy out-of-sight costs of medical care we now have. I plain just don’t want any of Obama’s plans to pass. I think that if his “reform” does pass, we won’t get single payor for a long, long time. So I am happy to see any opposition to what Congress is putting out now. It seems to be in bed, in my opinion, with big insurance and Pharma more than Whole Foods at this point.