A Prescription for Our Ailing Health Care System

Congressman Connie Mack (R-FL 14th) is currently serving his third term in Congress. He is a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure, Foreign Affairs, and Budget Committees. Mack is a strong advocate for greater fiscal responsibility and is a champion of tax cuts and other pro-growth economic policies.

Universal health care? Public option? Nationalized health care? Socialized medicine? Regardless of what you call it, it’s a bad idea. Americans are sick and tired of Washington’s non-stop spending and bailouts. Now is not the time to burden Americans with higher taxes, more spending, and greater government control.

Rather than unleashing the power of the free market, President Obama prefers to create a one-size-fits-all solution that puts Washington bureaucrats, rather than doctors, in charge of your health care decisions.

The Democrats’ bill mandates that everyone have government-approved insurance. In order to control costs, the Democrats’ bill imposes several price controls within the health care industry and does nothing to slow the growth in health care costs. And to pay for their plan, President Obama and Congressional Democrats want to place a surtax on millions of hard-working Americans and small business owners. Their plan would enact penalties on businesses with payrolls over $250,000 who do not provide health insurance.

Instead of allowing the federal government to hijack our nation’s health care system, we should look to free-market ideas to improve affordability and accessibility for all Americans. Some ideas include: small business health plans; health savings accounts; medical liability reform; and using tax incentives for individuals who have health insurance.

The American people deserve the freedom to choose the health care that is best for our families. While this debate is about health care reform, it is also about something bigger. At its core, this debate is about whether the federal government has taken too much control of our economy. The American people have spoken, and their answer to that question is a resounding YES.

Implementing market-based ideas to reform our health care system will encourage competition, innovation, and life-saving medical advances, while expanding choices for those who need medical care the most. It’s the kind of prescription our ailing health care system desperately needs.

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