Medical Coverage for 45 Million Without

Michael Stephen Levinson

Candidate for President

There are 45 million people in America without health insurance. My innovative program will cover every one, my “policy,” rivaling the best of insurance available to the bluest chippers. Here is a way we provide coverage for the uninsured, the cost much less than you imagine.

First we cancel Bush’s tax cuts that exclusively benefit his supporters, returning our wealthiest class to where they belong, in their own tax bracket, instead of crowding us. Reversing Bush’s tax cut policy heists all our cable TV’s blabberific non-stop talking heads, Wall Street’s svelte gentry, most of our lawyers, doctors, and dentists, Members of Congress, lobbyists, and bureaucrats, all dyed in the cashmere Bush supporters.

Then, we tell our doctors and dentists, that for every uninsured person they treat, their charges will be treated as a charitable contribution, deductible from their income tax, up to $50,000 worth, sliced right off the top of their gross. Then, at the bottom line, after all of their tax deductions are taken, up to 25 thousand, or half, from their charitable works, removed from their bottom line pile of greenbacks owed to Uncle Sam.

There, incentives we need. Dr.’s and Dentists will be elbowing each other for the opportunity to voluntarily treat an uninsured lo-cal dollar patient, as charity. Whatever the doctors and dentists cough up for their patient’s blood work and costs of an office visit, comes off their taxes, at the top, and again at the bottom, after their deductions.

This happens with a couple one-liner changes in the tax code, via Executive Order by the poet prophet President, as opposed to a lobby ridden sucker driven complicated Act of Congress, though the president’s Executive Hors D’oeuvre, fringing the tax code, ought to require Congress’s ratification, separation of powers and all of that.

Florida doctors will work a full day on Wednesday, instead of going golfing, and a half day every Saturday, with only three weeks in the Bahamas every year, instead of five. All our medical doctors will want to voluntarily participate, especially baby boomer Dr.’s, who are seeking to put aside as much as they can for their own retirements.

The working poor, instead of crowding the emergency rooms, accruing debt they cannot satisfy without a credit killing bankruptcy, will have a doctor to treat their families, on a regular basis. Seeing as we are paying for the hospitals’ unpaid emergency room services, in the form of ever higher insurance rates, reflecting the hospitals’ skyrocketing cost of ‘horse pistol’ care, all the parties involved will benefit from our doctors’ and dentists’ charitable deeds.

Then the government can ask these working poor, would it be OK for uncle Sam to collect a voluntary five or ten bucks a week from their gross pay, not to be refunded, or tax deducted, to pay the government back, so the poor can establish credit as bill payers, with a bill paying record, qualified to purchase a decent running pre-owned car?

To determine the actual cost of this innovative program, start with the incentive: taxes forgiven from medical deliverers. Set those lost taxes against savings in emergency rooms. For icing on the cake, add the projected dollars we will be voluntarily collecting from the paychecks of the working poor who will all be glad to round-about actually have a Dr., and the long term means to pay their Dr.’s for family services, as long as they don’t have a compounded interest daily debt to some lobbyist’s designated collection agency, or whatever else the porkers and bureaucrats imagine they can barrel on a sensible health care program that covers all the uninsured. Our health care industry needs reformation, the breaking issue, supply vs. demand.

Regardless your premiums, as boomers age, requiring more attention, you’ll be lucky to get five full minutes with your Dr. My program further calls for free medical education, for Dr.’s nurses, dentists and all their related personal. Springing open the med school doors will jerk the AMA into a swift boat infomercial battle, they, to push the astronomical cost of my free medical school program, but not to fret, I’m preparing a failsafe, readable plan on how we pay for it, for your pre-election approval. First decide whether you want free medical education for the doctors.

My son is a very smart man!