Better Education
Wayne Dunlap has been both a High School teacher and an University professor. He believes that the future success of America depends on the abilities of our children. We need to begin restoring control and responsibility to parents so that every child has the opportunity to obtain an excellent education.
Our current system of K-12 education needs change. Sadly, 24% of San Diego's high school students and almost 1/3 of the students in our nation's high schools drop out before finishing. As an Economics professor at San Diego State University, Wayne Dunlap experienced students who could not read the textbook. As a High School teacher, he had classes with over 40 students. In his personal business, he had an employee (20 year old high school graduate) who could not write.
The lack of education in science, technology, etc. compared to other industrialized nations and even up-and-coming nations like China and India is alarming. How can we maintain our life style in this high tech world when we are not properly educating the next generation?
America’s colleges and universities are among the best in the world. Why? If the student and their parents determine that the education standards are not sufficient, they move to another college. This occurs for the publicly funded colleges and universities as well. They must keep their academic standards high in order to compete for students.
Our nation’s K-12 schools are falling further behind and our children are trapped in failing schools across the country. The reason is because parents have little or no choice of where to send their children. Like our universities and colleges, we need to achieve greater quality and efficiency with more diversity of choice in our K-12 schools. When parents control their children’s education, schools must be responsive to parental demands that their children receive a first-class education. Otherwise, parents will find alternative means to educate their children.
Health Care
Americans are eating worse, getting less exercise, and depending on too many drugs. Preventable diseases such as diabetes and others are on the rise at an alarming rate. Wayne Dunlap believes that current estimates for future health care costs are dangerously underestimated. Americans should assume responsibility for their own health with less reliance on drugs and surgery. We should provide better education so Americans can do so.As recently as the 1960’s, low cost health insurance was available to virtually everyone in America including people with existing medical problems. People alive today can remember when doctors made house calls and a hospital stay cost only a few days pay. Also, charity hospitals were available to take care of families who could not afford to pay for health care. Then the government moved in with Medicare, the HMO act, and thousands of regulations on doctors, hospitals, and health insurance companies. Medicare regulations alone run more than 100,000 pages.
Today health insurance costs are skyrocketing. The high cost is one of the major reasons we have so many people without health insurance. Rather than roll back the government obstacles to affordable health care, politicians are standing in line proposing new ones. In every country where government provides or pays for health care services, the results are the same: long waits for substandard medical services, particularly elective services. Under a universal government controlled health care system, patients and doctors will become frustrated because services will be rationed by a government bureaucrat in Sacramento or Washington, not decided by you and your doctor.
The solution is for people to take back responsibility for their own health care programs. Wayne Dunlap supports fully tax free Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and high-deductible health care insurance plans. Letting consumers have choice in their own health care programs will allow them to get the best deal at the best price possible. Without regard for HMO rules, Americans should have the freedom to determine the level of health care and health insurance they want, the care providers they want, the medicines and treatments they will use, and all other aspects of their medical care. Patients are better served by having options and choices, not new federal bureaucracies restricting their options.
Such choices and options will happen only when we unravel our current bureaucratic system of health care and change the tax code to allow individual Americans to fully deduct all health care costs from their taxes, as employers now can. Until we do, patients will pay ever rising prices and receive declining care while doctors continue to leave the profession in droves.
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