Scott Keller on Health Care

Health care should be free for everyone and focus on HEALTH

A: True.

Q: Do you agree that "More funding for health coverage, but change model"?

A: True. Added/clarified stances:

• Central government should only act as a hub, rather than a governing body for health care.
• Health care should be run locally.
• Health care should be free for everyone and should focus on HEALTH rather than drugs.
• Establish reverse compensation models whereby medical professionals get paid based on the number of patients that STAY healthy.
• Help people be healthy and thus avoid being sick--through diet, better food, better economic situations thus reducing stress, etc.
• Replace Medicaid with free local health care options through innovation and local economic models.
• Remove need for insurance.
• Educate people.

Make society's best interest to help people be healthy

A: I guess "no opinion" is the best choice from the options given. I'd prefer to answer "none of the above" or "other approach". I don't prefer Federal spending under the current debt-based, tax laden economic system. I'd prefer local options, with more LOCAL spending. Also, health care should be non-profit, and we should do our best to remove greed and conflicts of interest from the equation. Currently, if there are no sick people, the doctors, hospitals, and drug company execs don't get paid, so it's not in their best interests to help people be healthy.

Encourage non-profit hospitals

More funding for health coverage, but change model

A: Support. I believe that before any funding is sent to the health care industry, the conflict of interest needs to be removed from the equation. As long as doctors and medical research organizations and pharmaceutical companies and so on are dependent upon people being sick in order to earn a living, the health of the patient will be at odds with the health professional's income. New reverse-compensation models, local compensation models, and other innovative approaches to ensuring the above professionals are taken care of while encouraging them to permanently heal the patients and keep them healthy need to be implemented.