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Amazing story of Tim Donner - hyperpolyglot

In the Anglo-Saxon world, it’s unusual to find people fluent in more than one language. It’s even…

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Donner proposes Medicare reform plan

BY WESLEY P. HESTER Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Donner has his own plan for Medicare reform: moving to a system of retirement health savings accounts. Donner, a Northern Virginia television production company owner, claims that House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s plan “courageous” but ultimately “insufficient.” “First, the gap between government subsidies and health care premiums will steadily widen as participants grow older. This leads to the second problem, the sense of insecurity generated by dependency on private insurance rather than government guarantees. This is based on the third problem, the unlikely prospect of a new, competitive market in private insurance for the elderly,” Donner wrote. “And all of this adds up to the bottom line: the program is highly unlikely to draw enough popular support to be politically feasible,” he added. Instead, Donner suggests giving citizens the choice to re-direct Medicare taxes to RHSAs where “they will start to build nest eggs that will grow into substantial amounts by retirement.” “These accounts, (which should be supplemented by high deductible, catastrophic insurance policies) will re-invigorate the doctor-patient relationship, while providing consumers with greater choice, better quality of care and lower costs as it builds a genuine free market in health care,” Donner wrote. He added that the program would wean Americans off government dependence while “solving the impending Medicare crisis and dramatically decreasing government obligations.” Because the concept allows people to put money in their own accounts, like 401Ks, “it is likely to be not only politically feasible, but downright popular,” Donner said. The plan would be instituted over 20 to 25 years allowing uninterrupted benefits to those at or approaching retirement age.