Health Care Reform Bill

This legislation, online here at Slideshare was originally authored in 2009-10 in response to the stalemate over Obama care passage. Intended as a pro-life alternative, it would provide basic universal coverage for all while leaving the private sector intact to provide more advanced niche care.

Overview
The Vital Healthcare Act as it was then called would reduce spending by avoiding the expensive middleman that is the insurance industry by using a block grant process, paying hospitals to provide care directly. To avoid the problems of inefficiency, poor quality, and overspending associated with bureaucratic employees paid regardless of performance an innovative system imitative of the free market would be created.

By using voting machines in hospitals with patient cards similar to Canada's CareCard patients can more rapidly be admitted and upon leaving provide voting feedback about their experience. Then higher rated hospitals receive more funding and stay in the system.

Eligibility
To ensure only U.S. citizens are covered, a similar identification process to that required of prospective U.S. Census Bureau employees would be mandated. See Section 201(b). Provision of one document from List A or List B and another from list C of the U.S. Census Bureau's BC-170D form will be needed to prove citizenship.

Four Principles
In defining what should and should not be considered basic Healthcare and covered accordingly I defined four key principles:

No Fault
High-risk lifestyles such as smoking and alcohol are controllable and their consequences should be borne by individuals, not society. If people want to engage in reckless, irresponsible lifestyles that is their right so long as they only harm themselves, but they should responsibly pay for the healthcare associated with their stupid choices.

Essential Rights
Taxpayer-funded healthcare should only cover basic inalienable rights, first life, then liberty, and finally the pursuit of happiness. Healthcare based upon individual1 choices, as opposed to inalienable rights, e.g. cosmetic surgery and abortion, should be paid for by individuals not taxpayers, for with choices should come responsibilities.

No Harm
Healthcare that harms the inalienable rights of others apart from their consent, most notably the right to life, should not even be legal, and certainly not paid for by taxpayers. Abortion is an obvious example. For purposes of the bill, the U.S. Government will error on the side of caution when potentially taking another human being's life, with the burden of proof on the side of the party seeking to potentially infringe on another individual's inalienable right to life that according to the Declaration of Independence is dependent on the Creator and dependent on no other individual's opinion or desire for said individual.

Efficiency and Consistency
Essential services must have a proven track record in providing measurable, consistent, and curative gains in the quality of societal health. Rarely tested drugs of dubious, highly varying, or ill-tested effect, or whose outcome is difficult to quantify, e.g. many anti-depressants, are not reliably effective enough to merit taxpayer subsidy.