I will work to repeal the recently passed Health Care legislation while concurrently producing legislation that responsibly improves the existing system. Our health care system is the BEST on the planet. It needs fixing, but what was recently done is not REFORM. It is a strong-arm takeover of 1/6 of our nation's economy that is a grave threat to our freedoms and liberties while further expanding runaway government. I would have NOT have supported the bill. My remarks are on this audio clip (at the 31:20 mark): http://stategovernmentradio.com/media/audio/082809_People_In_Politics.mp3

But it is not enough to say that I would have voted against the bill. Along with my NOT having supported the bill, I would have co-sponsored or supported legislation to improve our health care system by:
1. Enacting tort reform to eliminate frivolous or excessive lawsuits for injury and yet provide reasonable limits on personal injury and/or pain & suffering.
2. Encouraging individual Health Savings Accounts (HSA's) that enable families to obtain catastrophic coverage at lower cost. Let the money paid into the HSA accumulate without penalty, time limit or ceiling on the amount saved. Also, allow ALL individual health care plans to be portable, thus enabling them to keep their coverage.
3. Fair treatment of insurance companies:
a. Removing burdensome and/or unnecessary insurance regulations.
b. Rewriting the laws governing health insurance to make the rules more understandable, and thus remove the window for loopholes and abuse. The contractual agreement of insurance must be between the insurer and the insured.
c. Not making pre-existing conditions insurable in all cases. Consider what would happen if you purchased a DVD player at an electronics store. It malfunctions 11 months later and you return to the store after it malfunctioned. You would then say: "I'd like to buy insurance for my DVD player that I purchased 11 months ago." Using the recently passed health care bill logic, the store owner must sell you an insurance policy that would cover the DVD player. Can we all see that it wouldn't take long before the electronics store would go out of business?
4. Declaring the Health Care Bill as UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The legislation recently passed will ultimately FORCE private insurance companies out of the free market. The vacuum left would then be filled by the government, which would then offer "Single Payer" government health insurance.
5. Opening competition across state lines. Let insurance companies compete to provide the best coverage packages in the free market.
6. Establishing high risk pools that group persons with special medical needs/conditions. Work with health care professionals to determine the best way to address the issue of preexisting conditions. These issues must be dealt with a measure of compassion. Viable alternatives to the recently passed health care bill were recommended and should be reexamined.
7. Considering Heritage Foundation's recommendation to transform Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP so that individuals and families have a broad choice of health plans and providers. Make those providers directly accountable to patients for their quality of care.
8. Streamlining the medical industry administrative workload. Doctors, hospitals and health care practitioners have a tremendous administrative burden of government regulation placed upon them. This burden currently requires an administrator-to-physician ratio of 4:1 (four to one). Four such administrators place a cost burden of about $120K or more on the hospital and/or medical practice. These costs are then passed along to the patient or third party provider.