The Big Ideas Project

Eliminate the Medicare earnings cap and tax the 5% so that they'll stay out of the Medicare system.They can self pay instead of bleeding us.Also stop wasting Medicare on people who won't recover so the nursing homes can keep getting richer.I've seen this happen.

Submitted by Jim B. from ME in Health Jan. 3, 2015, 7:41 p.m.

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#1624

71 votes

we need to do more to find a cure for diabetes

Submitted by Joey Stevenson in Health Dec. 27, 2014, 2:35 p.m.

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#1624

71 votes

Treat health insurance like a business. That way we could cut out the middle man. ( the CEO's ) That way we could have a single payer plan, that covers everyone for far less money. And for the wealthy who want cadillac plans, you could buy a supplemental plan,

Submitted by james kallunki in Health Dec. 19, 2014, 12:41 p.m.

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#1640

70 votes

Provide public gyms for people who earn less than $35K per year, families with less than $55K per year. The cost will be more than offset by reduced public healthcare costs. To reduce costs, provide an additional incentive to and additional benefit to users, enable the equipment to produce energy to power the facilities and feed the grid. Credit user accounts for energy produced, providing them an additional, albeit small, income source.

Submitted by Timothy Salt in Health Dec. 31, 2014, 11:58 a.m.

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#1640

70 votes

An Amendment to the Constitution to accept the Affordable Care Act as a means for providing to the citizens a fair chance of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as in my opinion health and wellness are a strength of a nation's and individual's diversity.

Submitted by DavidA in Health Dec. 11, 2014, 5:09 p.m.

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#1668

67 votes

Over 3 years, double the funding of the National Institutes of Health (from $30B to $60B), and provide additional funding for tripling the budgets of the Center for Disease Control (from $6B to $18B), National Institute of Mental Health ($1.5B to $4.5B), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases ($1.9B to $5.7B).

Submitted by Timothy Salt in Health Dec. 16, 2014, 1:48 p.m.

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#1668

67 votes

Require all food production sites to provide a live video stream of their operations. The White House just approved putting body cameras on cops. Why not approve putting cameras where our food is grown and raised? This includes both traditional and factory farms.

Submitted by Etran in Health Dec. 10, 2014, 5:20 p.m.

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#1681

66 votes

Encourage Doctors to treat veterans with incentives. For example, cover the loans for new doctors; help them set up new offices, etc.

Submitted by David in Health Dec. 10, 2014, 2:51 p.m.

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#1681

66 votes

Retrofit the big box stores sitting idle into mini ERs with full diagnostic equipment. Hire Doctors with student loan debt and contract them for a length of time and upon completion then reduce by a percentage the loan debt....same with nurses. Accept all insurance along with VA taking the pressure off VA. Mainly for non-life threatening emergencies. Instead of 14,000.00 to rehydrate make it 1400.00. Make as Green with solar to keep costs down. Building standing, parking available

Submitted by Yes in Health Dec. 18, 2014, 8:51 p.m.

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#1681

66 votes

Allow drug research and testing of medical marijuana for pain and ibogaine for heroin addiction. Make applications and studies private between institutions and the DEA and create better funding mechanisms, so no published appeal to the DEA is required, and so NIDA doesn't control resource collection. See: Ibogaine, Marijuana

Submitted by Simon R, Political Organizer in Health Dec. 11, 2014, 7:28 a.m.

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#1766

60 votes

Another Purple Idea: People need to have the right to choose their own health practitioners including holistic and alternative ones. Our entrenched institutions (AMA, ADA, Medical Schools, etc.) and pharmaceutical companies have been too slow to change. (and no FORCED vaccinations!)

Submitted by C B. from HI in Health Dec. 11, 2014, 4:08 a.m.

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#1776

59 votes

Change Public Policy to eliminate food deserts allowing the poor unfettered access to more healthy organic eateries and grocers in poor neighborhoods

Submitted by Roger M. from NY in Health Dec. 30, 2014, 3:28 p.m.

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#1788

58 votes

An individual/family that is covered by a medical insurance plan/group! Should not have to pay 100% value for a medical procedure not covered by the medical insurance plan! The cost to the individual/family should be at the same discount rate that the medical insurance plan would pay if the procedure was a covered procedure. The individual/family did not leave the group/medical plan that the discount rate was agreed upon between the medical insurance plan/group and medical providers.

Submitted by Tom Spence in Health Dec. 11, 2014, 10:11 a.m.

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#1788

58 votes

Create a long-term (30-year) plan that outlines a slow transition to a healthcare system that pays doctors to keep patients healthy and cuts their pay when patients get sick. To be fair there needs to be a set of guidelines to determine whether or not a patient became sick due to the doctor's supervision or to factors outside of the doctor/patient's control. This will end the need for the healthcare industry to profit from people being ill or diseased.

Submitted by Etran in Health Dec. 12, 2014, 4:37 p.m.

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#1802

57 votes

Get Congress to finally pass a bill to educate the public about the epidemic of Lyme disease and co-infections, how to protect us and pets from getting them, how to accurately diagnose them, allow all Lyme-treating physicians to treat, require insurance companies to pay for care, develop testing to make sure the nation's blood supply isn't tainted by Lyme/co-infections, study ways to combat infected ticks on the ground (already Alaskan cedar nootkatone and carvacrol spraying have been studied)

Submitted by Robin K. from CA in Health Jan. 3, 2015, 11:54 p.m.

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#1802

57 votes

Eliminate sales taxes on organic products, where such labeling has been approved through a formal, effective, accurate regulatory process.

Submitted by Timothy Salt in Health Dec. 31, 2014, 11:42 a.m.

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#1802

57 votes

Free prenatal care for every woman everywhere in the world.

Submitted by Fredda in Health Dec. 19, 2014, 3:38 a.m.

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#1817

56 votes

Knowing the societal effects of childhood trauma (See ACES Study) and given 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys are sexually abused in their lifetime, any child disclosing sexual or physical abuse shall receive free medical and mental health treatment at a provider of their choosing for the rest of their lives. The cost of such treatment will be estimated, a federal fund established, and payment for services will be born by all Americans equally via an across the board tax increase.

Submitted by Kyle in Health Dec. 30, 2014, 2:12 a.m.

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#1817

56 votes

End direct-to-health provider advertising of drugs and devices.

Submitted by lexout in Health Dec. 11, 2014, 7:34 p.m.

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#1817

56 votes

Our healthcare system is labeled wrongly. It is an illness care system. Payment by procedure does not value prevention. Which is the one thing which could maintain health. Educate existing and new medical personnel (Dr. nurse etc) and students to focus on wellness instead of health crisis. Change payment systems (federal and private insurance) to reflect the value of HEALTH not illness.

Submitted by Ummm... in Health Jan. 9, 2015, 2:08 a.m.

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#1909

48 votes

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