- Tighten antitrust laws related to hospitals to keep them from becoming so dominant in a region that insurance companies are helpless in negotiating prices with them.
- Tax hospital profits at 75% and have a tax surcharge on all nondoctor hospital salaries that exceed, say, $750,000.
- Outlaw the chargemaster.
- Amend patent laws so that makers of wonder drugs would be limited in how they can exploit the monopoly our patent laws give them.
- Tighten what Medicare pays for CT or MRI tests a lot more and even cap what insurance companies can pay for them.
- Allow Medicare to negotiate prices.
- Lower the age of entry into Medicare to 60.
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