Formal Government Takeover of Health Care
Last week House Democrats unveiled a formal government takeover of health care bill that will increase taxes, increase premiums, increase spending, and cut Medicare. This bill is the wrong kind of reform and it ignores the millions of Americans who have stood up and said “no” to government run health care.
Fiscal conservatives recognize that our health care system needs a tune up, not a trade in. We have put together a better alternative for health care reform that will cut costs; eliminate the waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare; make insurance portable; allow small businesses to pool together to negotiate coverage; and provide tax credits, not penalties, to businesses that insure their employees.
I believe we need to empower patients, not burden them with government mandates. We need to preserve the doctor-patient relationship, not let government bureaucrats make health care treatment decisions. Most importantly, we need to make high quality coverage affordable for everyone, not pick winners and losers. By taking these steps, I believe we can fix our health care system while strengthening our economy.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Did the political defeat stop any chance of Obama’s health reform going through?
February 3rd, 2010 at 5:45 pm
I worry about the Healthcare Plan. Will it cause negative changes on my standard of living? Do the advances counterbalance the negative aspects?
February 11th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
I hope Republicans show up for the Health Summit. The audience is the Independent Voters who really want to compare and contrast the Senate Health Bill (which was passed late last year with super-majority) and the ideas of the Opposition.
February 21st, 2010 at 8:11 am
Great articles
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:08 pm
When will the government discover that we don’t want these people to become involved with health reform. Almost every single federal government program is a financial wreck, and tax payers are left holding the bag. If they are unable to complete the task that they were being elected to complete, they’ll find out in November that people in america tend to be fed up with most of the failures and will supplant them all.
March 12th, 2010 at 2:02 am
The problem with this country is BOTH the Democrats and Republicans. Anyone who seriously thinks that one side isn’t corrupt or slaves to Corporate America hasn’t done an adequate job of paying attention. To the Republicans: The GW administration will go down in History as one of the worst administrations. They eroded your constitutional rights, expanded the power of the wealthy elite, invaded countries under false pretenses, destroyed diplomatic relations with the rest of the world, and spent money like it was going out of style. To the Democrats: Obama is a dud. He promised much and has turned out to be another corporate lackey. He made deals with big pharma to ensure you could not get your medication cheaper elsewhere, he flip flopped on military tribunals, he refuses to fix health care properly through nationalization or single payer, he populates his inner circle with more Wall Street insiders, he spends money on bailouts and useless stimulus packages.