Strategic Stockpiles
When families lived on farms, it made sense to store perhaps a year or more of food for emergencies, crop failures, etc. Today with families living in cities, they save $ for emergencies. However, in the event of actual shortages of food and other strategic supplies, saved money will not do the trick. It becomes a matter of public purpose to insure there are actual strategic reserves for emergency consumption. Currently we have a strategic oil reserve. This should be extended to stores of other necessities for the purpose of emergency consumption. The purpose should not be to support special interest groups, but to provide the consumer with real savings of actual consumables for rainy days.

Medical Savings Accounts
This is a proposal to give everyone an account that has perhaps $5,000 in it to be used only for medical purposes. At the end of each year, any unspent funds remaining in the account are paid to that individual as a ‘cash rebate’ when filing his tax return. Anything above $5,000 would be covered by catastrophic insurance. This proposal implements incentives for people to minimize medical expenses, frees up physician time previously spent in discussion with insurance companies, and reduces insurance company participation in the process. This will greatly reduce demands on the medical system while substantially increasing the supply of available doctor /patient time, while making sure all Americans have coverage. To make sure preventative measures are taken, the year end rebate can be dependent, for example, on the individual getting an annual check up, and/or any medical testing the govt. would like to require.