Yes, we need to fix the fiscal aspects of our healthcare system….in a meaningful way, not a complete overhaul.  We support INCREMENTAL and genuine reform, specifically….

  • Passage of individual single-issue bills to address all the SEPARATE problems:
  • Tort Reform (cap on frivolous lawsuits): a critical component missing from all bills to date.
  • Changes which do not add to the national deficit per the CBO.
  • The same or better access to treatment, without delay or denial, with choice for families.
  • A bill which does not allow insurance companies to deny treatment due to pre-conditions (which could have been approved August 2009 as shown in the CNBC interview with Rep Burgess (scroll to 8:10).  Under HR3200 and other bills, patients with pre-existing conditions will have to wait five more years for coverage)
  • A bill which allows group rates for small businesses such as current proposed H.R.850.
  • A bill which allows tax breaks if families provide their own health coverage.
  • A bill which separately addresses elimination of fraud and waste (Per the CBO report Section 1601-53, this alone would save $1.3 billion!  Might HR 2249 or HR 2252 or HR 2273 or HR 2278 might accomplish this?)
  • A bill that implements personal healthcare savings so that the current system can be phased out over the next 2 generations—see John Stossel report on the Medicare Ponzi scheme, and New Jersey Star Ledger “Why mandatory health insurance is a scam on young  people” ), that does not in essence repeal Medicare but rather a plan similar to Bush’s Social Security plan, which did not cut elderly benefits at all.
  • Health care plans for which Congress members must also belong, such as H.RES.657

 See http://www.thomas.loc.gov/ to view various proposed bills currently considered.