If the US healthcare system were a patient, it would be sick, overweight, and due for major surgery.

15 Healthcare Reforms to Live (Not Kill) For
By Max Borders

If the US healthcare system were a patient, it would be sick, overweight, and due for major surgery.

Over at Underthrow, in my last installment about the ethics of healthcare vigilantism ([link removed]) , I wrote:

Remember, though: the righteous, bloodthirsty chorus is the same group that offered thunderous applause at the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This law ignored every single fundamental reform needed to make healthcare more *affordable* and accessible.

The problem with the US healthcare system is not that there are eeeevil CEOs who deny people care. The problem is that it is a Care-tel—a corrupt orgy of providers, insurers, pharma, and politicians. This fantastic corporate-state circle jerk comes at our expense. If you’re gonna reform it, creating DMV-care For All is not the way. (Just ask a Brit or a Canadian.)

Instead, we must create a highly competitive, less corrupted, holistic healthcare ecosystem.

With that, I’ll cut to the chase. Here are 15 reform measures that needed to occur fifteen years ago.

1. Make it legal to buy health insurance across state lines. Insurance companies cartelize within states, making rate increases and lower quality more likely. For example, if your state has more coverage mandates, it’s probably less affordable. But with a national market—if United Healthcare sucks and gets a reputation for denying care, it would be legal to buy a policy from another state.

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