There is a Health Care Reform Plan That Doesn't Duck the Big Issues--and More Than 100 Heavyweight Stakeholders Support It!

Without an effective cost containment strategy to go along with it, reforming the health care system would be like piling millions of more people back onto a system whose costs are unsustainable. It would be like trying to re-board the Titanic!

As I have said before, many of these new health reform plans ignore the real issue--the cost of health care.

But there is one health care proposal that doesn't duck the tough issue.

Health care costs are the problem. The 47 million that are uninsured are just a symptom. Here's a real blast of wisdom for you--47 million people don't have health insurance because their family can't afford it, or their employer can't afford it, or their government can't afford it, or some combination.

So, why do all the health reform plans just try to pile millions of more people back on board a system we can't afford to keep afloat?

Massachusetts is struggling to launch their new health reform plan because the cost of the mandated policy is too high In the end, all of the new health reform plans will struggle with the same cost issues if they don't face them head-on. In Massachusetts, getting their costs down to $250 per person per month (they are above that now) would develop a $9,000 mandated health insurance policy for a family of three. Over $48,000 per year (three times the poverty level), that family would have to pay the full cost of this mandated policy.

Does it sound to you like Massachusetts is going to actually launch its new universal health reform plan????

Taxpayers are going to launch the Massachusetts legislature if they try to implement that mandate.

In the past few weeks we have seen a number of key health care stakeholders come together, sometimes in surprising combinations, to support health care reform. Sometimes they've been some pretty strange bedfellows.

But none of them are dealing with that big fat elephant in the room--the cost of health care--any more than Massachusetts is.

But what if I were to tell you that more than 100 REALLY BIG and diverse stakeholders have already come together in support of a far-reaching health care reform proposal that doesn't duck any of the issues--the uninsured, cost, or quality.

The organizations and individuals are a "Who's Who" of those that use health care services, pay for it, insure it, deliver it, think about it, advocate for it, and pray on it.