Big Changes coming in Healthcare.How would Trump reduce costs?

Healthcare reform bill is likely to be revised a lot in the Senate.

It is going to end up with the following Key changes:

1)Increasing Consumers participation in Comparative Shopping between different Options

2) More Choices in Insurance Plans

3) Tax breaks

4) Policies that offer protection for catastrophic expenses and Pre -Existing conditions with varying Deductible Plans.

5) Tom Price -HHS secretary--words--More Competition--Improving Patient-Doctor relationship.What does that mean? Let consumers decide how to spend their money.Encourage Consumers do more Compare-shopping.Example: Spending 1200 $ on Colonoscopy vs. 4500$ ,spending 189$ on Cardiac Sonogram vs.459$ for Medicare Patients thus reducing CO-Pays from 90$ to 38$. Educating Medicare and other patients that they can SAVE A LOT by finding out prices for Elective Procedures in their areas.Patients can Save a Lot for Hip or Knee surgery by finding out prices ahead --thus lowering their CO-PAYS.

6) Tom Price expects different policies--with different premiums--Some with low deductibles and some with high deductibles will become available helping Consumers make Wise Decisions for Elective Tests and Procedures.

7) Is the word-- More Competition a political stunt or does it have teeth to really bring down the costs for consumers? I think --it will involve more consumers in thinking seriously of their healthcare spending--but it will not be easy and might take 2-4 years.