Health Care Options – Despite What They Say, Health Care Can be Fixed Without a Government Takeover or Costing $1 Trillion

President Obama and his merry band of MSM puppets would like everyone to believe that if we don’t accept their plan than we must just want to maintain the status-quo. They need you to believe that because the other options, the ones they don’t want you to know about, are being proposed by Republicans.
Everyone agrees that health care needs to be fixed. When the cost of a health service doubles in 10 years you can bet that that there is something besides a free market driving up costs.
For over 20 year it has been recognized that health care was on a collision course. During the 1990s, Republicans tried to change Medicare into a defined-contribution model similar to the the health care program that covers federal employees. The Republican-controlled Congress passed such legislation in 1995, but President Clinton vetoed it.
Recognizing that Medicare costs were soon to become a major impact to the federal budget, President Clinton set up a bipartisan Medicare Commission headed by John Breaux (D-LA). The Breaux Commission came up with a plan very similar to the Republican plan in 1999. Liberal Democrats bitterly resisted these ideas because they wanted Medicare to remain a command-and-control system.
More recently, bills were introduced in the House in July 2007, May 2008 and September 2008. All died a painful death in the Democrat-controlled House. There is one that has yet to be pigeon holed in the Democrat “we know better than you” hole and that is the Health Care Freedom Act (S. 1324) sponsored this June by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). Highlights of this plan:

1. Protects the rights of Americans to keep their employer-based plan if they choose to.
2. Provides Americans without employer-based health insurance with vouchers of $2000 for individuals and $5000 for families to purchase health insurance.
3. Allows Americans with Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) to use their HSA funds to pay for insurance premiums, encouraging employers to contribute to their employees’ HSAs.
4. Creates a national market for health insurance by allowing individuals to purchase health insurance plans in any state.
5. Provides block grants to states to develop innovative models that ensure affordable health insurance coverage for Americans with preexisting health conditions.
6. Reduces predatory and frivolous malpractice lawsuits against physicians and hospitals.
7. Assures that every health care consumer has access to price information prior to treatment so they can make informed decisions about their care.
8. Repeals financial bailouts (TARP) to fund health care vouchers.

No government takeover, no new taxes, and best of all – It addresses the real problems with health care costs.
DeMint's bill is estimated to insure an extra 22.4 million people, at no net cost to the government. According to a Pacific Research Institute study, the Tort reform reform portion alone could potentially save $200 billion per year or more. If tort reform were to save only half that much as the study suggests, it could result in savings of $1 trillion over ten years, it would save as much as the ObamaCare plan would cost.
Clearly there are many viable solutions to the problems presented by skyrocketing costs of health care without burdening our already fragile economy with a new entitlement program that, like any government program, will be impossible to get rid of. So… don’t be fooled by the liberal hype. It is all smoke and mirrors.
Health care reform is possible without ObamaCare.

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